Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banking. Founder J. Pierpont Morgan was a great builder and dreamer who helped build the U.S.-and grew so powerful that he helped run it. Morgan left his father's London banking firm at 20 to try his own luck on Wall Street. After acting as agent for his father's firm, he went into business for himself under the name of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He performed dazzling feats of finance one after another. His method was to buy control of banks and other financial institutions, use them to seize a dominating role in corporations, then reorganize...
...hero, Physicist Sebastian Bloch, in whom readers will find it hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries no party card. Young Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably calls the atom bomb...
Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...
...Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery-Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. And despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing...
...Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery-Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. And despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmie Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing...