Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director of Publicity Alfred Henry Kirchhofer, aloof, lantern-jawed managing editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...
...responsibility in this case. It is neither within its province nor within its competence to give critical judgment on the treatment of disease. If it wishes to maintain the respect of the medical profession and the public, the American Chemical Society cannot permit itself to be used as an agent for unestablished proprietary remedies in the exploitation of the sick...
Information regarding booking on the northernmost steamer service to Europe is to be had from Mr. A. M. Kirk, General Passenger Agent, Canadian National Railways, 360 McGill Street, Montreal, Canada...
...plane. When this turns out to be part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan, demands a cut. O'Hara, escaping from the general's junk, arrives in time to cut short these negotiations, but before he can find the money General Yang and his soldiers...
Gene Talmadge has hated the New Deal ever since it offended his official and masculine pride by adjudging him and his staff incompetent to administer Georgia's relief, putting a female Federal agent in control. But the Governor also fancies himself a political philosopher and fiercely hates the New Deal's expensive paternalism. Proclaiming himself a Jeffersonian Democrat, he believes in a free hand for business, the least and cheapest government possible...