Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited French Communists. His listeners answered with frenzied screams and gesticulations. In the midst of the hubbub, a French undercover agent slipped away to report the temper of the meeting to French Administrator Philippe Boniface. Boniface hurried to his Moroccan counterpart, bearded Mohammed El Mokri, Pasha of Casablanca...
...bureaucratic work"; his assistant, Rudolf Albrecht, State Secretary for Food, was denounced as a "saboteur." Next in line were "a number of leading bandits" responsible for the "month-by-month decline" in coal production. Then the accusing finger pointed at Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who jumped bail in the U.S and escaped to East Germany on the Polish liner Batory. There he became Chief of Information (i.e., Propaganda) in Soviet Germany. "A basic change [is needed] in the work of the Bureau of Information," said Communist Investigator Hermann Axen, whose official title is "Head of the Agitation...
...absolute: he can demand kickbacks, hire & fire at will, dispense I.L.A. union cards at cut-rate initiation fees, and threaten any stevedoring company with a quick strike. Under the union contract, the hiring boss is a foreman appointed by the companies themselves. But he is actually the free & unhampered agent of the local I.L.A. czar...
Career: Like the A.F.L.'s new boss (see Labor), he got his start in union politics as a business agent for the Plumbers & Pipe Fitters (with Chicago's Local 597, the union's largest). He resigned in 1933, after twelve years, to take an appointment from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner as state director of labor. During the next, eight years, he successfully pushed through legislation setting up unemployment compensation, a state employment service, a state conciliation & mediation service. In 1941, he resigned, moved to Washington to become secretary-treasurer of the union (225,000 members...
Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt felt that a recent interview with an FBI agent was worth recording. The agent, she wrote, "tried to be very solemn as he asked me about the loyalty and competence of John Foster Dulles, our future Secretary of State. This agent's behavior was a wonderful feat, keeping a straight face while making such an inquiry. I'm afraid I smiled openly ... I was visited again with questions about another impeccable character. So, I want to reassure any of my friends who think that the FBI is not on the job and is not able...