Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violent Denunciation. When Greek police arrested Old Party Wheelhorse Ploumbides last year for high treason and espionage, Zachariades joined in with a violent campaign against him. Ploumbides, cried Iron Curtain radio stations, was a stooge, an agent provocateur in the pay of the U.S., Britain and the Greek police...
...Thomas W. LaVenia, 43, who took leave from the U.S. Secret Service in 1944 and never returned to duty, after reports that as an agent at Hyde Park in 1943 he spent much time and money in bars with questionable associates. LaVenia's story last week to a special session of the subcommittee was that he had secretly been assigned a playboy role to help round up ten people suspected of plotting against President Roosevelt...
...executive: "The crank mail usually outnumbers the sensible mail about five to one." Woltman, veteran anti-Communist reporter and never a member of the party or anything close to it, got letters addressed to "Comrade Woltman" and "Freddy Jewish Woltman"; he was denounced as everything from a "Communist agent" to "Freddy the Stink," and accused of writing the series only because of "pressure from his bosses" and "from the White House." Said Woltman: "Except for the attacks I've been subjected to over the years from the Communists, I've never seen anything more irrational and venomous...
Conceivably, then, millions of Americans will live in the happy, independent state of James W. Lowry, 45, of Cleveland, purchasing agent for Republic Steel Corp. Over the years, he has built his daughter a wood-paneled game room, installed a new furnace in his home, made Venetian blinds for all the windows, laid a concrete drive, screened in the front porch, made a suite of bedroom furniture and slipcovers for chairs, built a snowplow, and rigged a darkroom for his other hobby, photography. Says Lowry, in the independent voice of all his breed: "I don't believe...
...fact, when Director Hitchcock is not in minute and masterly control of his material: script, camera, cutting, props, the handsome set constructed from his ideas, the stars he has Hitched to his vehicle. Actor Stewart happily downplays his boyish charm, comes through strongly as Hitchcock's principal agent in creating suspense out of casual incident. Actress Kelly, a Hitchcock worker in Dial M for Murder and now working in his next picture, plays the career girl with a subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able...