Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While thousands in Honolulu were cheering the Sikorsky's arrival last week, 23 men on Midway Island, a tiny tuft of green in the Pacific, were cheering the arrival of Pan American's air base construction ship North Haven, advance agent in the establishment of Pacific air service. An isolated cable relay station for 32 years, Midway is known to most mariners merely as a lighthouse. In charge of the small colony, which includes five Chinese and seven Japanese, is Acting Cable Superintendent G. B. Perry, who is also U. S. Naval custodian of the island...
...raid made near our town, one Federal agent was killed and one was seriously wounded. Two stills were destroyed and eight men were arrested, one of which was the "Killer...
Proudest, craftiest and most daring of Seminole leaders was a brilliant-eyed, strikingly handsome young buck named Osceola. In 1835 the Government Indian Agent. General Wiley Thompson, summoned Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty of immediate emigration. Osceola advanced to the table, contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces...
Japanese sweetness and light glinted in Southwest China this month in the optimistic person of General Kenji Doihara, bribe-brandishing chief of the Japanese Army spy service in Manchukuo (TIME, March 18). Last week the tubby but trig little advance agent for Japanese imperialism was back in Shanghai consuming highballs with correspondents and paying all the checks. Out over China's cables went his success story of delightful encounters with leading Southwest Chinese, such as Mr. Hu ("Hongkong Hu") Han-min, eminent apostle of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-Sen "Father of the Chinese Revolution...
...trade in & out throughout the game, and any other idle broker may join in, although an outsider does not have the advantage of holding a numbered slip. Instead of settling individual transactions, each broker records his trades as he would on the Floor, turning over to a volunteer "clearing agent" for "settlement" at the end of the game his "bought" and "sold" memoranda. The game goes on until trading peters out or the real stockmarket stirs in its sleep. Losses have run as high as $200 in a single game but the average gain or loss is between...