Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children"). She gathered children of local railroaders, lumber dealers, locksmiths, mechanics, polished up the kids' piping tones until they became as smooth as their scrubbed faces, and as crisp as the little girls' curtsies. The late Poet Dylan Thomas, who might have made a crackerjack press-agent if he had tried, called the Obernkirchen girls "angels in pigtails...
...represent those of the CRIMSON. However, as the editorial staff is engaged in private research, the results of which will not be released until July, the more readily available analysis of Mr. Royce must be accepted. The author is presently engaged in a study entitled, "I was an Undercover Agent at Lake Waban...
...whirling panorama of slant hatted insurance salesmen, cow-like women, bull-like men, and smiling madmen, Harington weaves a crazy pattern of the present. His starting thread is Hal Hingham, an agent of Arcadia Life, afraid of sales prospects, and frightened of his bulbous, seductive landiady. The image of Hingham the failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough...
...contract to A.F.L. production workers in its three New Jersey plants, American Can Co. included the same widely hailed guaranteed-annual-wage plan that the can industry had given the C.I.O. steelworkers' union (TIME, Aug. 22). But from the A.F.L. local came a startling reaction. Through Business Agent John Gerard, the union flatly rejected G.A.W., said that it was clearly unnecessary in their industry, where there is no seasonal layoff comparable to that in auto plants...
...that was left in his specific G.A.W. fund when he was fired, quit, retired or died. At week's end, negotiations between the company and union were stalled because the company was pushing for G.A.W. and the union was steadfastly refusing to accept it. Cracked Business Agent Gerard: "It would be like equipping Arab camel drivers with life jackets in case they ever drove into a mirage that turned out to be a real lake...