Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again about the recent London activities of his aide. Captain Royal Ingersoll-who was last week sensationally reported by the British political tipsheet The Week to have been engaged in showing the British admiralty a complete outline of Japanese Naval plans stolen in Tokyo by a U. S. secret agent-Admiral Leahy was still reluctant to do more than admit that in London Captain Ingersoll had indeed discussed "tonnage of combatant ships...
...national acreage allotment for 1938 at 62,500,000 acres, compared to 68,198,000 acres under cultivation last year. Allotments must be proclaimed by Secretary Wallace before July 15, divided among the wheat-producing States, counties, divided by county committees (including the Department of Agriculture's extension agent) among individual farmers. If the price (currently $1.11 a bushel in Manhattan) is less than 52% of the parity-price on June 15, or if the July crop estimate forecasts a bumper year, Secretary Wallace with the President's approval can make loans from...
Legislative agent for the Massachusetts Council of Teacher's Unions, John B. Reynolds, will read statements of Dean Holmes of the Graduate School of Education, who last February told Senator Cole's committee on education that the "law creates a bad attitude" in the classroom...
...Girl Was Young (Gaumont British). Cinema's top man for melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations...
...owners prepared their dogs, Arnold M. Amundsen, blond, grey-eyed managing director of Missouri's Humane Society, walked into the garage, and with him an agent of the society, Foye Thompson. Three weeks before, Director Amundsen had received an anonymous telephone call, telling him that in this garage a caged cat was daily put before a bulldog to irritate it. Director Amundsen had investigated, learned the date of the dog fight. He and Agent Thompson, under false names, were fraternally received in the garage. The promoters then passed a hat "to heal the winner." About $9 was gathered...