Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Providence, R. I. court, Socialite Francis Ormond French, onetime Boston insurance agent, who last year embarrassed his son-in-law John Jacob Astor 3rd by writing about his life in society, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Among the creditors listed were Empire Trust Co. ($2,875), Dr. Callahan, of Bull Street, Newport ($10), Newport One-Price Clothing Co. ($6.35), Good Will Cleansers ($6.20), Wing Lee, laundryman ($1.48), Western Union Telegraph Co. (38?). In 1923, when broke, Socialite French took an unsuccessful flyer at driving a taxicab...
...introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the "sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...
Having locked themselves in their projection booths with food & water for a sitdown, the two operators thus announced their strike by playing on the sound equipment a record prepared in advance, an idea originated by the business agent of Local 306 of the Motion Picture Machine Operators Union (A. F. of L.). Two other operators did the same thing in another Manhattan theatre (run by the same corporation) the same night. Their demands were met by 6 a. m. the following morning...
...done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes place. Agent Kelly fells Mueller...
...week later): The Coroner in two days receives 500 telephone calls demanding an investigation, many a hot letter, "the greatest storm of public protest and public interest I have ever seen." Agents Kelly & Regan are haled before the Coroner's jury. An eyewitness testifies that after Mueller fell, Agent Kelly jumped on his legs & feet, Regan on his head; that the two men waited for the police only after heated persuasion by witnesses: that at the station house where Mueller was first taken he was cursed by policemen, buffeted about, refused medical treatment for an hour-and-a-half...