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Word: agented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other suggestions." Because Miners Lewis and Murray had to attend U. M. W.'s annual contract negotiations, the peace talks were shifted to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. While reporters pitched pennies at a line in the corridor (chief winner: A. F. of L.'s Press Agent Phil Pearl) the negotiators in Room 105 wrangled for five hours., consumed $11.90 worth of sandwiches, coffee and milk. The results were inconclusive but the conferences went on. Said William Green in Washington: "... I solemnly declare we will never liquidate the American Federation of Labor for anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I Am Counting On You | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...first time, the party took over three floors of the Roosevelt Hotel, busied itself for two days with mass shopping expeditions, visits to museums, theatres, night clubs. At a luncheon where the girls badgered celebrities, Stephens' tall, brown-haired Kay Leftwich was picked by a professional models' agent as "most beautiful American schoolgirl." Third day, having lost only three overcoats a day, reported only one case of illness (cause: overeating) and absorbed considerable informal education on woman's 7,400 problems, the girls embarked in two ships for Florida. There they dated the University of Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Girls Meet Boys | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...recognized as the sole bargaining agent for dining hall workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highlights of Labor Pact | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

Married. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg (Ursula Parrott), 36, author of Ex-Wife and ex-wife of three; and Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 41, socialite literary agent, ex-husband of two; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Said a Hitler Maid, recently promoted to undercover agent, as she dialed a German news broadcast: "You may think that our radio is the voice of our. people, but it is not. The voice of Naziism is trumpeted, but the true voice of Germany is a murmur. . . . We are listening now to news that is never published. What we learn we are passing from one to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmurous Germany | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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