Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reed, an associate of Fokker, declared that Stratton had approached him to recover the receipt given by Elliott Roosevelt saying, "I have personally assured the President that all papers involving Elliott have been destroyed." In December 1934 a process server of the Nye committee got from Fokker's agent a file of papers relating to the Roosevelt contract...
That the politics in this bit of Rooseveltian history were not wholly on the Republican side became evident later in the week when none other than Press-agent Charles Michelson of the Democratic National Committee released extracts from the purported contract to confirm Son Elliott's version of its terms...
John Gielgud, a sensitive and intelligent Englishman of 32 with a nose the size of a hockey puck, was seen in the U. S. last spring as the hero of a not very exciting British film melodrama called Secret Agent. Long before that, however, London had grown accustomed to acclaiming his Hamlets. He has appeared in four separate productions between 1929 and 1936. Many who witnessed the cast of his nighted colour in Manhattan last week had no difficulty in understanding Gielgud's popularity in the role. The size of Actor Gielgud's features, ludicrous when magnified...
...hand and signs. For this purpose the Viceroy last week sent on tour as his personal emissaries to each of India's potentates three resolute political officers on special mission. Respectively the three are an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman, namely: handsome, epigrammatic Sir Courtenay Latimer, crusty Agent to the Governor General in the States of Western India, who will get potentates to sign in Baroda, the Deccan, the Gujarat Agencies and the Western India Agencies; astute and charming Francis Verner Wylie, the Resident at Jaipur, who must cope with the rulers of Jammu & Kashmir, Rajputana Agency...
...same or similar goods unless justified by actual differences in manufacturing, transportation or selling cost (aimed at the practice of selling the same product under different names, at different prices), giving or taking special considerations except for services rendered (aimed at commercial bribery as well as at the agent who is in fact a principal), offering services, facilities, rebates not available to all on "proportionately" equal terms (a provision hitting at special Allowances for advertising...