Word: agent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House is the springboard to head lines-Washington Axiom. President Hoover last week set about uprooting the conditions which made this saying, known to every wide-awake capital press agent, lobbyist and promoter, unpleasantly true. For months the President has been annoyed at the old and accepted practice of self-important little men entering the White House, saying "How-do-you-do" to the President, coming out to the newsgatherers in the lobby to talk of their "mission." What is said is generally of small importance; it would get scant press attention anywhere else. But because the publicity-seeker...
When a U. S. dry agent kills a legger suspect, the State seizes him, indicts him for murder. Promptly the U. S. Government, stepping in to protect its own, has the agent's murder case transferred to a Federal court where the State prosecutes, while the U. S. District Attorney defends. This procedure has saved many a homicidal dry agent from conviction?free of charge...
Last week Charles Stevens, U. S. dry agent, set out with friends to raid the farm of Tom Chandler, 43, north of Poteet, Tex. The farmer, sitting on his front porch, rose, picked up a gun. ''We're federal officers and you're under arrest," called Agent Stevens. Leveling his rifle at the farmer, Stevens started to rush him, tripped over a sand rut, pulled the trigger, shot the farmer through the heart, dead. Stevens had no search warrant. His raid netted a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of whiskey. He was held...
Last month at Tecumseh, Okla., a U. S. dry agent prepared to raid a farm. With him went one Jeff Harris, private citizen with no official standing except his dry zeal. During the raid Citizen Harris killed two citizen farmers (TIME, July 15). The State of Oklahoma indicted him for murder...
...rounded up the candidates for the Farm Board, placed them with their endorsers before President Hoover. The Board's personnel bears his imprint. As the President's special agent he has been combing the country for a wheat representative to complete the Board's membership...