Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved the appointment for a two-year term of a national director of public information concerning the legal profession-a press agent to improve the U. S. layman's opinion of lawyers...
...Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers including such potent veterans of last spring...
...first Alumni Directory in three years, this is the largest ever issued by the University, requiring over 1,500 closely printed pages. It has been six months in preparation, under the direction of David W. Bailey '21, Publication Agent...
...lately begun to take a dry Martini or two before dinner, a definite concession to good fellowship with newshawks, few of whom are teetotalers. After resolutely refusing for 13 years to let any one take press relations out of his stiffening fingers, last August he hired a new press agent-Philip Pearl, an experienced reporter with a wide acquaintance among Washington correspondents...
...Also in prison last week, not in Rightist Spain, but in France, lodged barrel-chested Major Julian Troncoso, Commandant of Irún, Franco agent on the French-Spanish border. Arrested for alleged connection with the subnapping episode fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 27), and the terrorist activities of a Rightist French secret society, Les Cagoulards (the Hooded Men) Major Troncoso boasted that Franco would retaliate with arrests of French consuls in his territory. Franco threatened the San Sebastián French consul with arrest, then capitulated, was reported to have booted out Major Troncoso as his Irún agent...