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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Automobile Workers' de mand for recognition as sole bargaining agent for all Chrysler employes, Richard T. Frankensteen, chief automobile union organizer in Detroit, telephoned a code phrase "My hand is up" to his lieutenants in the factories and within two hours all Chrysler plants in Detroit were shut tight (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More and Better Strikes | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Meantime, a finesse which might have opened a tiny entering wedge in the Johnson Act was tried when the French New Dealers asked the Washington New Dealers last week if a fiscal agent such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Quick Crisis | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...trade the songs they write for tailoring service, even piano rental, until a producer putting on Broadway shows with Hollywood backing is willing to advance $50,000 for their masterpiece, Fair Lady, provided they can sign the English singer, Jane Clarke (Winifred Shaw) for the lead. The anxiety of Agent J. Van Courtland (Allen Jenkins) to get 10% of Jane's $1,500 weekly salary leads him to sign up the wrong Jane Clarke (Ruby Keeler). This Jane, neither English nor a singer, accepts the misrepresentation because it offers her an opportunity to capitalize her talent for dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Bowditch prepared at Milton, is President of the Student Council, ex-President of the CRIMSON, Secretary and Treasurer of Phillips Brooks House, and Second Marshal of the class. His brother, E. Francis Bowditch '35, is agent for the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDITCH CHOSEN 1937 CLASS AGENT FOR ALUMNI FUND | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

Bowditch is the sixty-seventh Class Agent of the Harvard Fund Council, which includes such well-known men as Bishop William Lawrence '71, Judge Robert Grant '73, and Forrester A. Clark '29. F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36 is the agent for the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDITCH CHOSEN 1937 CLASS AGENT FOR ALUMNI FUND | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

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