Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit. Hoffa helped Herman Kierdorf get a parole from a prison term for armed robbery, hired him as a Teamster organizer. Hoffa also found a job as a Teamster business agent for Herman's ex-convict nephew Frank, who then set about shaking down small businessmen in Flint, Mich. He was fatally burned last year while setting fire to a Flint dry-cleaning establishment (asked by the McClellan committee to name some of the hoodlums he had got rid of since becoming Teamster president, Hoffa had the gall to list the late Frank Kierdorf). Other ex-convict business agents...
...Hoffa's own Detroit bailiwick, Teamster Business Agent Zigmont Snyder owned a nonunion car-wash that paid workers as little as $1 a day. Many a Hoffa crony has collected payoffs from employers for "sweetheart" contracts. Teamster Officer Gerald Connelly negotiated Teamster sweetheart contracts in Minneapolis, including one that lowered wages from $1.32 an hour to $1, another that cut workers back from $65 a week...
...than two years, the feud between Egypt's Colonel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein fairly curdled the Middle East's air waves with choice blends of camel drivers' curses, ancestral aspersions and bogeyman bombast. Heckling Hussein as "the little king" and "a British Zionist agent," Nasser's radios warned Hussein and "his gang" that the Jordanians would soon "hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing...
...Nasser fills the earth with plots and corruption," answered King Hussein in a broadcast. "His voice and his radios rave both morning and night like one stricken with fever." Hussein's radio labeled Nasser the "new pharaoh," "Communism's first agent in the Middle East . . . pilgrimaging to his Mecca in Moscow time after time," and Bedouin signs proclaimed, at parades honoring the King: "Hussein is the son of the Prophet, Nasser the son of a postman...
...efficient travel agent-and few survive long without efficiency-takes advantage of his happy situation to reconnoiter foreign hotels, bistros and showplaces for his customers. He not only is on the look for new spas and even new nations to tout (one favorite this year: Nepal), but takes care to learn the right replies to the hushed queries that are bound to be put to him by first-time travelers: "Where are there plenty of young men around?" "I have a weak heart; how is the altitude?" "My husband snores; can we get separate rooms?" Finding a Field. Some...