Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertising signs glowed through the gloom, but most of the Second City's outlying streets were doused in country darkness. "It's the city's funeral, not ours," said Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle, the bold boss who had called the strike. Long-time business agent for a Chicago local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, "Umbrella Mike" Boyle is said to have earned his nickname by his method of collecting donations from electrical contractors and other citizens who sought his favors. Boss Boyle would hang his umbrella on the bar of Johnson's saloon...
...York citizens $10,000,000 per year. Baking. Two days later Mr. Dewey closed in, after more than a year of sleuthing, on a baking racket. He arrested a lawyer, the owner of one of the city's largest cake & pastry bakeries, and the president and business agent of a local of A. F. of L.'s International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers, whose President Daniel J. Tobin was chairman of the Democratic Labor Committee in last year's Presidential campaign. His electrical and baking cases, along with his moves against poultry, trucking, garment and used...
...alighted, ran to a telegraph office and sent a wire to Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, awaiting him in Chicago: "Safe and down in Newark." Next day he popped up in Chicago with Miss Hepburn. Crowds collected at the Marriage License Bureau, but the pair remained in their hotel. Said her agent: "Miss Hepburn will not marry Mr. Hughes in Chicago today...
...make an agent fit to use this complicated machinery, three and one half months of study are needed, culminating in an examination on a mock-up murder complete with dummy and clues. The training is shown together with a few scenes from the more famous kidnapping cases. The cold-blooded efficiency of the F.B.I. seems never to miss; this short ought to frighten offenders of Federal laws out of their wits
Adapted from famed Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, The Woman Alone was made by the producers of The Thirty-Nine Steps and Seven Sinners, lacks their top-notch quality...