Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain and Bombs. At Burgos, Spanish Rightist capital. British Agent Sir Robert Hodgson informed Generalissimo Franco's Government of His Britannic Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
...Retail Clerks' International Protective Association of Kansas City, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, found it wise to leave town in a hurry. Promptly and without formality, Walter A. Mahan, well known to the police but up to that moment undistinguished as a labor leader, became Business Agent for the retail clerks...
...offering to enforce price-fixing arrangements for employers in return for their compelling workers to join the union and pay dues. Police claimed they were powerless because businessmen refused to sign complaints. Last month, after threats of a shakeup, the police started making arrests. A few days later, Business Agent Mahan was ousted by his international union...
Stackpole is also Class Agent for the Harvard Fund Council...
...lungs, but also in the spleen and liver and, to a less extent, in the bone marrow and kidneys where the endothelial cells seem to absorb them. The carbon particles do not cause any local reaction. ... In short, it may be stated with assurance that this new anti-infectious agent-the intravenous injection of charcoal-is an absolutely harmless procedure which produces no local or general reactions, such as fever, chills, or headache...