Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several months ago, a well-dressed young man called on a woman real estate agent in the small town of Bazainville near Paris, seeking, he explained, a house and grounds suitable for his aged parents. Something nice and quiet, said the young man, adding: "Price means nothing to me." Impressed, the agent showed M. Riviere a large house, somewhat run-down -its porch sagged and its roof leaked-but basically sound and set in seven fine acres of vineyard and orchard. A working-class family named Dupuis with five children lived there rent-free...
...Riviere liked the place and set just one condition. "The occupant must get out within fifteen days." Impossible, replied the agent: French law prevents cursory eviction of tenants; besides, the owner is a kindhearted man. Riviere was adamant; finally the agent arranged to move the poor Dupuis family to a vacant store and pay their rent. M. Riviere paid the purchase price, spent another estimated $86,000 rebuilding the main house...
...Washington, a Bank of Brazil agent signed the $300 million U.S. loan granted by decision of President Eisenhower just before Brazil partially devalued "its currency last February. As finally negotiated, the loan is to be guaranteed jointly by the bank and the Brazilian Treasury, and will be repaid in monthly installments over a three-year period. For U.S. exporters, who have had to wait up to nine months for payments during Brazil's dollar crisis, the government's promise to pay off the entire $423 million backlog by July i-and to carry on thereafter...
Another sag in "Americanism" that brought DAR action was the "unamerican" flying of another flag on an equal level with that of the United States. A DAR agent found the Un guilty of this and the outraged Daughters hastened to have the equal arrangement changed. When the Norfolk Navy Yard repeated the insult, they passed a resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
...momentous case in point is Federal Judge Luther Youngdahl's dismissal of four of the perjury counts against Owen Lattimore. If the American public has ever desired a scapegoat for the victory of Communism in China, it has been Lattimore. Ever since Senator McCarthy called him the "top Soviet agent in America," he has taken a continual barrage of mud. By last November his name had been so completely blackened that even defenders of the Truman Administration's Asian policy shied from debating the charges that he was an agent of Soviet conspiracy...