Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows will tell. Presumably the figure was big enough to bother even optimistic Mr. Meehan. His firm did some heroic retrenching in the way of lopping off branch offices, including those at sea on crack transatlantic liners. But reports that the high-strung, red-haired onetime theatre ticket agent had lost his last shirt were exaggerated. Year ago Broker Meehan presented his son on his 21st birthday with a $130,000 seat on the New York Stock Exchange...
General Freight Agent...
...many ways. He soothes her in emergencies, advises her on parts, costumes and household matters. They have occasionally been seen together publicly-Sieber with a feminine companion, Dietrich escorted by her current favorite. She seeks her husband's advice on business but leaves final decisions to her agent, Harry Eddington...
...begins promisingly with a forthright description of the major fiasco in the pursuit by Federal agents of John Dillinger-the shooting at Little Bohemia, near Rhinelander, Wis. on April 22, 1934, when agents under Purvis' direction surrounded Dillinger's hiding-place and in the subsequent confusion shot three innocent men and lost one agent to the escaping gunmen. Recounting the last-minute tip that made haste necessary and bad organization inevitable, Author Purvis tells of the flight of three airplanes loaded with special agents from Chicago, of the drive to Little Bohemia in ramshackle cars, of sneaking through...
Mavis Arden, a famed cinemactress on tour with her publicity agent (Warren William), has only one insterest in life, which it is his job to frustrate. The interest is men. In Washington, Mavis meets a Congressman (Lyle Talbot), makes an engagement for the next night in Harrisburg. To prevent her from keeping it, Pressagent Stevens sees to it that her car breaks down en route. Forced to stay over a country boardinghouse, she wastes no time getting down to business. She spots a young mechanic under her car, murmurs, "Look at those strong and sinewy muscles," sidles outdoors to make...