Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eugenia were married. Shortly thereafter, perhaps because of Eugenia's influence, he began to take an active part in Plumbers Local 463. In 1920, with the help of some other young dissidents, he was elected to the local board, and in 1922, at 28, he became business agent for the plumbers' local...
Early in his career George Meany had recognized the Communists and Fascists for what they were. While he was still the Plumbers' business agent, he had reprimanded and fined a Communist agitator in his union local. In 1939, a few days after war broke out in Europe, Meany took a firm stand against totalitarians of the right or left in a speech before the New York state American Legion convention. "Labor has more reason to be vigilant in defense of democracy," he said, "than has any other group or class. Organizations of working men and women formed...
Divorced. Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke), 25, eye-filling, Hungarian-born cinemasiren (The Assassin) and sometime playmate of Britain's fun-loving Marquess of Milford-Haven; by William Wordsworth, 42, London publicity agent, great-great-grandson of the English poet; after three years of marriage, no children; in London...
ICHIRO HATOYAMA, TIME'S cover subject this week, is a man who is both symbol and agent of renascent Japan, a country beset anew with internal struggles and aspirations ten years after the war. The story is a penetrating assessment of a Japan at the crossroads. It is the story of how pride and tradition, international beckonings and bickerings, are once again bestirring the Japanese nation...
...Agnes Deigh (her name a pun on Agnus Dei) plays godmother and literary agent to a lisping crew of homosexuals until she jumps out of a hotel window...