Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Feb. 6 item, "High Tension," fails to mention that Ferranti Ltd. had offered Seattle transformers completely to that city's specifications at original price, eight days before their bid was rejected, also that the city purchasing agent had full legal authority either to accept this offer or to reject all bids and readvertise. The city purchasing agent had Ferranti's written assurance that they would submit a new bid completely in accordance with all the fine print in the specifications, at a price which could have saved Seattle taxpayers almost...
...again. The New York Herald Tribune's Carl Levin asked whether the interview represented "a softening of your attitude." No, the President said. Then he paused, squared his shoulders, and told the assembled reporters that they could like it or lump it. The President was his own free agent, he said. He would see whom he pleased, when he pleased, and say what he pleased to anybody he pleased, and he was not to be censored by them or anybody else. He didn't like their attitude this morning and they ought to cool...
Prescott H. Voss, purchasing agent for the University, treated a third aspect of "Staff Functions of Industry," buying. The shrewd purchasing agent, Voss recommended to the audience that congregated in the Kirkland House Common Room, is a man who has served in the sales service of industry...
...Student Placement will present three men prominent in the field of industry. The speakers are: Victor Borella, vice-president in charge of operations of Rockefeller Center; Earl Newsom, public relations council for Ford Motor Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; and Prescott H. Voss, purchasing agent for the University...
...race is a social solidarity," said Bishop William J. Walls of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. "The church will free its soul and hands only if it removes from itself the stigma that it is the most segregated institution in the United States ... By letting itself become the agent of separation and aloofness it has failed...