Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming in the lumber, pulp and mining districts of Ontario that anger the people and Premier Hepburn, who on his record might favor peaceful unionization. The vehemence of the Canadian opposition is intensified by another...
Last October, four months after the Robinson-Patman Act went into effect, the Baltimore purchasing agent for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. received a letter from A. & P. headquarters: "Go through your records carefully and see if there has not been some entry or some correspondence which might come in for criticism or complaint. You are buying large quantities of merchandise from many shippers for a large organization and must realize that everything you do is certain to be subject to review, or even investigation, and we urge you to handle your dealings accordingly...
...Church, he arrived at Oxford not knowing the Lord's Prayer, studied Arabic but not much else. When the news reached England that 13,000 British troops had been slaughtered in the Afghan Revolt, Burton packed up and went to India. Rapidly promoted to No. 1 secret agent under the great colonizer Napier, Burton turned in a too-realistic report on native vices which Napier's successor sent on to Bombay as an effective way of removing a subordinate whose bawdy satirizing of army etiquette did not amuse him. Burton narrowly missed expulsion, returned to England, his health...
Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he had discovered a modern parallel to this myth...
...Agent Gray was seeking to explain the wreck of the fishing steamer Lord Ernli, fourth vessel this year to run ashore on craggy Flamborough Head. This sharp promontory sticks out nearly ten miles into the North Sea between Scarborough and the River Humber. Coasting vessels skirt it closely and an abnormal number have lately been getting into trouble. Besides the four recent wrecks, many a craft has just managed to stop or back away in time to avoid piling up on the shore. Agent Gray believes that so many ships have foundered there that the point is almost completely girt...