Word: agent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly last week the U. S. threw an arm of protection about Citizen-Killer Harris, removed his case from the State to the Federal courts. Private Oklahoma citizens inquired how this could be done as Harris was no dry agent. U. S. District Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught put his fingers over his lips, whispered: "Private Government regulation...
...other two powders and thus become discontented with the product. Then Mr. Liggett became interested in Vinol, a proprietary medicine. Vinol, popular, was widely distributed but the various drug stores handling it started a price cutting war. Thereupon Mr. Liggett appointed one store in each locality as Vinol selling agent, ended the price war and began his chain formation. It was with 40 of his Vinol agents that he formed United Drug...
Only setback to steady United Drug prosperity came in the post-War deflation in which Mr. Liggett's company was threatened with insolvency. At this date, however, he had many a Rexall agent throughout the country and these Rexall agents, loyal, raised $1,500,000, helped him through the deflation period. Last year Drug, Inc. had a net income (11 months...
...Paul Shoup was a Southern Pacific ticket agent and freight clerk; at 31 he was assistant general freight agent with headquarters at Portland. Then (1906) came the San Francisco fire and with this first great emergency his first great opportunity. For the late great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose...
...publisher's agent of the future threatens, or promises, to be not so much the retail bookseller any more, as the literary club with its thousands of book-a-month readers who are generally subscribers-by-the-year. Book-of-the-Month Club, which merely selects and sends books at no great reduction, has the largest number of subscribers. Literary Guild, cheaper, selects and sends as well as does its own binding, has second largest subscription list. Others more or less similar, are the following, supplied by the Publishers' Weekly, publishing trade organ: Paper Books, Limited Editions Club...