Word: agented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second of last week's vital pronouncements was the issuance at Berlin?one month late?of the annual report of Seymour Parker Gilbert, who succeeded Owen D. Young in 1924 as Agent General of Reparations...
...Agent Gilbert's report even hinted, last week, that Germany is desperately hard pressed to pay, the Reich might have hoped for important concessions and scaling down of payments by the Committee of Experts...
Contrasting with French joy was the raging fury of the German press last week. In Berlin the potent, Democratic Acht Uhr Abendblatt, even thought that Prime Minister Poincaré of France had "influenced'' Agent General Gilbert to write a "made to order report," and rashly charged that this perfidy had been arranged at the Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill and J. P. Morgan conference in Paris last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). As German anger mounted, imaginative correspondents cabled the suggestion that if Mr. Gilbert had remained in Berlin, last week, he would have been mobbed. As usual, however, the Agent General had left...
Almost equally secretive was Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, when cornered by ship-news reporters on the Berengaria. With hands clasped behind his back, Mr. Gilbert rose slightly on the balls of his feet and observed: "You must realize, gentlemen, that this is a good time for me to be silent...
Nathan S. Jonas was born in Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 1, 1868. He attended Brooklyn public schools, Wright's (Brooklyn) Business College, was office boy, bookkeeper, traveling salesman and insurance agent. From 1902-07 he served on the New York City Board of Education. He is a member of Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences and has given liberally to Jewish charities...