Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University hires and fires its maids as it pleases, but since 1936 there has been a union organization known as the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association which acts as the authorized bargaining agent for the maids...
Last week wireless messages from In dia's Agent S. Sinha in Lhasa reported that the Tibetan capital had not yet been captured. No one could say exactly how far off the Communists were; it could be 60 to more than 200 miles. Newsmen tried to check further with the Tibetan mission in Kalimpong. Lhasa's taciturn envoys said that they knew little of what might be happening at home. Told that the Reds were reported less than 100 miles from his country's capital, Finance Minister Trepon Shakabja, head of the mission, blandly replied: "Well...
...Lhasa's golden-roofed lamaseries, the Buddhist theocrats who have ruled Tibet's 3,000,000 people spun their prayerwheels, consulted ancient oracles, conferred. For the non-Communist world, the sole source of news from the capital was the radio transmitter of the Indian agent stationed there. For seven days it was silent, and the rumor rose that a pro-appeasement lamasery revolution had unseated the young (16) Dalai Lama. Then the wireless spoke again. "Extreme worry," it reported, gripped the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama and his Regent, Takta Rimpoche, must soon choose one of three courses: flight...
Trooping into & out of a green-walled Manhattan studio one night last week were a Long Island housewife, a Parisian antique dealer, Actress Gertrude Lawrence, two delinquent boys, a city judge, Critic John Mason Brown, an employment agent, an interior decorator, and Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Robert Millikan. When the last interview was over, four hours later, 66-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt appeared to have as much energy as when she started. She also had, tidily recorded on platters, enough material for at least a week of the 45-minute Eleanor Roosevelt Program (Mon. through Fri., 12:30 p.m.) over Manhattan...
...annual appeal from a class agent towards this goal is the second way the University will enter into a College graduate's life. The Fund Council holds the principal for the class until its 25th reunion while the College spends the interest. After the 25th reunion the class agents continue to ask for gifts, but these are put to immediate use by the College while the $100,000 gift is added to University endowment...