Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retirement in 1931. From the beginning of Wilson's stay until the late '90's the Printing Office grew in importance, doing all of the University's job printing, and finally printing the University Catalogue. It grew so rapidly that J. Bertram William '77 was appointed as publication agent to smooth over public relations between the Printing Office and faculty members, who were not used to being told where they should send their printing...
...using its enormous buying power to squeeze heavy discounts from suppliers, and 2) selling below cost in an area to undermine competition. The biggest change: A. & P. will dissolve its huge produce-buying subsidiary, the Atlantic Commission Co., which has been under fire for acting both as an industrywide agent for fresh-food suppliers and a buyer for A. & P. itself...
...Huelva, Prime Minister Churchill, then in Washington, got a message from his chiefs of staff: "Mincemeat swallowed whole." But how gullible the Germans were was learned only after the war from captured documents. The Spaniards, behaving just as Montagu had expected, turned the papers over to a German, agent. Then, from echelon to echelon of command, went the German intelligence report: "The genuineness of the captured documents is above suspicion." Hitler himself believed it for nearly two weeks after the invasion of Sicily began, actually sent Marshal Rommel to Greece, where he expected the real attack to come. From Sicily...
...investigation. The official Communist L'Unità joined in. accused the Ambassador of "espionage." called her "an old lady who needs rest to calm her nerves." The Red Socialist Avanti chimed in with its own blast: the U.S. Ambassador is in reality "Senator Joe McCarthy's Rome agent in charge of witch hunting." What the hue & cry is about: the Ambassador is empowered to negotiate arrangements which will keep U.S. offshore procurement contracts out of factories dominated by Communist unions...
...only turned up nothing new in the way of security leaks or espionage but had actually deeply damaged the morale of scientists and other Monmouth employees. Reported Kihss: "Neither the subcommittee nor the Army has yet charged any present Monmouth employee with being a Communist now or an espionage agent now. The subcommittee's intimations on possible past or present espionage remain far from courtroom evidence. The record is that the Army and the Eisenhower Administration had already tightened security regulations and opened investigations under the President's April 27 executive order before the McCarthy inquiry turned toward...