Word: agente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the S. S. Leviathan, steaming toward the U. S. last week, came a tall slender man with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and a wise, constructive reticence. Safe on the high seas from reporters, Seymour Parker Gilbert lazed and rested from his labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower...
Before a super-nationalist rally at Berlin, General Ludendorff warmed up by declaring that the Jews, the Jesuits and the Freemasons "robbed Germany of certain victory during the World War." Then, as his poise snapped, he shouted: "Even today the supernational [Allied] powers rule Germany through S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General for Reparations] and Mgr. Eugenio Pacelli [Papal Nuncio to Germany] and the Republic's head makes no use of his authority...
...announced yesterday by W. G. Morse '99, Purchasing Agent of the University that the first orders for the Harvard Pictorial Staffordshire full-sized dinner plates had been closed. These sets of plates consist of 12 pieces, each portraying a separate view of old and new University buildings from familiar and unusual angles. The drawings were executed by Professor K. J. Conant '15 of the Architectural Department. The borders of these sets will be identical to those of dishes used nearly a century ago when University. Hall was a dining hall, and the design was unearthed when a trench...
...first order consisted of 3300 dozen plates and was placed with a prominent Boston firm agents of the English manufacturer. The orders were made with the Purchasing Agent by graduates and their relatives all over the country. Although the first order has been closed Mr. Morse stated that his office is still accepting orders for more sets under the specified agreement that they will be filled only if enough requests are made to warrant a second order being placed with the manufacturer's agents. He declared that requests for from 250 to 300 dozen plates, selling as they...
...their spare moments; men have written his name in the encyclopedias and the New York Times; historians have exalted him. He doubts no more. A scintillating triumph has jarred the semi-fossilized bones in their subterraneous abode. For yesterday, the will of a deceased Camden, New Jersey, real estate agent disclosed a sum of $5000 to be devoted to the erection of a fitting and lasting memorial in King Leonidas' home town...