Word: agented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memphis, Hadley Strange, 18, earning his way through school, testified that as a Prohibition Agent he bought and drank liquor at a speakeasy door. Said the judge: "It is a shame for the United States Government to hire boys like this and send them into alleys to drink whiskey with bums." Agent Strange quickly explained that ordinarily he only tasted, did not drink...
Margarine is a butter substitute made from vegetable oils. Soap is a cleansing agent also made from vegetable oils. Last week buttery oil and sudsy oil flowed together in a merger of a great margarine company and a great soap company. The margarine company was Margarine Unie, a Dutch concern which, with its British affiliate, Margarine Union, is Europe's largest margarine producer. The soap company was Lever Bros., which, with some 200 associated companies, is world's largest soap maker. Inasmuch as both Margarine Union and Lever Bros, control their sources of raw materials and also operate chain store...
...more than 100 posts); veterans, river & harbor improvements on inland navigation, the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Porto Rico, flood control, waterpower, forest reserves, oil conservation, the Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia parks. In addition. President Hoover chose Mr. Good to be the administration's prime political adviser and agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge as well as Herbert Hoover, he has come in the Hoover Cabinet to represent the rural psychology on political matters far more than does Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde of Missouri. The other politician...
...them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard. With himself he debated too long, for the guardsmen rushed him while he pondered. His gun cracked spitefully. Three men dropped to the deck dead-Guardsmen Sidney Sanderlin and Victor A. Lamby, U. S. Secret Service Agent Robert K. Webster...
Eielson Line. Carl Ben Eielson, Polar flyer with headquarters at Nome, Alaska, last week merged with Bennett & Rodebaugh Co. of Fairbanks and the Wien-Alaska Airways of Nome and Fairbanks. Alaska Airways, Inc., the new concern, is a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. of Delaware whose agent Mr. Eielson now is. He will not again accompany Sir George Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica this winter, as planned. Nor is it yet certain that Sir Hubert himself will go, what with Zeppelin activities and the difficulties of getting a Polar pilot as expert, efficient, companionable as Pilot Eielson...