Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embittered anti-Fascist correspondent, International News Service's Guglielmo Emanuel. The least of Newshawk Emanuel's incessant conversational jibes has been to refer to the slightly exophthalmic Dictator as "Banjo-Eyes." After ten years in Rome for I.N.S., this Mussolini-baiter was arrested by the Italian counter-espionage service as an alleged spy in Britain's pay who cleverly masked his activities by working for William Randolph Hearst...
Rendezvous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Based on Herbert O. Yardley's American Black Chamber (TIME, April 17, 1933), this picture deals with the technique of counter-espionage at Intelligence Service headquarters in Washington during the War. Though the intrigue is sometimes unintelligibly involved, the story is swiftly paced, manages by a parade of ingenious tricks to provide sustained entertainment. It also arouses wonder that, with German spies as thick as fleas and clever as foxes, the War Department managed to keep any secrets whatever...
...boom investment and production is not strong enough overwhelmingly to counter-act these inevitable rigidities, then Labor Unions will conquer in their unconscious attempts to make unemployment as large as possible, and Capitalists will gain a splendid victory in contracting production as much as is monopolistically profitable and possible...
...advocating that one Yakov Lukich be made manager of the collective. Since Yakov is an excellent farmer, interested in improvements in agricultural technique, he would have made a good manager had it not been for the fact that he had been in the White army and was now sheltering counter-revolutionary officers in his home. Nagulnov urges that the world revolution begin at home, and puts his theory into practice by giving up his wife, studying English and considering, most of his neighbors counter-revolutionists. Yakov builds up the collective because he is a good farmer and tears it down...
...Cadets blasted down the home tretch the Crimson launched a counter attack, successful when Manheimer again put a hard shot past goalie Drum...