Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest city in the world is reputedly the Persian Gulf port of Muscat, capital of the arid little (82,000 sq. mi.) independent Sultanate of Oman, where the average rainfall is only 3½ in. a year. In September 1833, U. S. Special Agent Edmund Roberts visited Muscat to sign a treaty with His Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan of Muscat. In addition to reciprocal, most-favored-nation treatment of imports & exports, it provided that U. S. citizens rescued from ships wrecked on Oman's rocky coast must be entertained at the Sultan's expense. When he departed...
...National Socialist Party in Germany throughout the late 20's. In 1933 these groups were merged as "Friends of New Germany," run by Heinz Spanknobel, a Nazi party member. Herr Spanknobel, indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury for failing to register as the agent of a foreign nation, speedily fled to Nazi Germany. In 1934 a Congressional Committee investigated the Friends of New Germany, found it "for ail practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund in 1936, resumed functioning under the leadership of a sleek, pompous, garrulous...
...issued voluminous heated replies to Moscow daily from Mexico City last week, included this: "I state categorically that the only sum I have received from the Soviet Treasury since my banishment from Russia was $2,500. . . . This sum of money was given me with complete legality and the agent secured a receipt from...
...much as a squeaking Leftist mouse would disturb a capitalist elephant. Most galling is Better Times's latest boast: "A distinct improvement in the New York Times handling of news from Rebel Spain was noticed by readers after the exposure of William Carney as Franco's press agent* in the last issue of Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel.' He is glad he is not compelled...
Died. Seymour Parker Gilbert, 45, youthful prodigy of U. S. business, one-time (1924-30) Agent General for Reparations Payments in Germany, since 1931 a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. As a young U. S. Treasury assistant to Secretaries McAdoo, Glass, Houston, Mellon, he often worked until nearly dawn, then showed up on time for morning work. As a young Reparations agent he harvested from Germany, distributed to the Allies, $26,000,000,000 in cash and chattels...