Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Harvard agent denied that Boston's most powerful lottery baron had anything to do with the pool, it was learned conclusively that the gambler, a witness in the "Beauo" Breen murder case, had agreed to back the enterprise...
...haired Ada Campbell Rose, mother of two-Donald, 11, Malcolm, 4. Colorado-born, graduating from Northwestern in 1923, she got a job with the Chicago firm of Scott, Foresman, textbook publishers, spent three years learning what children like to read. Wife of Donald G. Rose, Department of Agriculture agent, who she says "is not the least bit literary," Editor Rose is daughter-in-law of Philip Sheridan Rose, editor of Curtis' Country Gentle...
...SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN-Amleto Vespa-Little, Brown...
Amleto Vespa was born in Italy, became a secret agent of Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin in 1920 and a Chinese citizen in 1924. When the Japanese took over Manchuria, they also took over Amleto Vespa. He was useful to them for his knowledge of the country, and for his status as a European who nevertheless could not claim the protection ''of a European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until...
...minimizing interdepartmental conflict, since officers blamed him rather than the army). A fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, Vespa nevertheless believes that "the nations of the world are committing a most terrible mistake in dealing with the Japanese as though they were a civilized people." The authenticity of Secret Agent of Japan is vouched for by Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China) and by Harold John Timperley, Far Eastern correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Without such confirmation, readers might question Vespa's story, not because he fails to cite chapter and verse for his statements, but because its account...