Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington agent orders the dispatch about the President "stopped." Nothing is said about the truth or falsity of the report...
...sent up to Brooklyn Navy Yard with a bottle of Mississippi water which she smashed over the bow of the New Cruiser New Orleans (TIME, April 24, 1933). This week, from the balcony of the Boston Club, Queen "Coco" will watch R. E. ("Rube") Tipton, steamship agent, proceed down Canal Street on a papier-mâché throne at the head of the Rex Parade. In ermine cloak and rhinestones, she will rise and stand with outstretched arms as Rex rides past, drinking her health in champagne...
...last October, when Explorer William LaVarre said he believed the Georgia flyer alive, the Redfern rumors had grown to such proportions that the U. S. State Department ordered an investigation. The Consular Agent at Paramaribo, Netherlands Guiana, unearthed a Creole Catholic missionary named Melcherts, stationed at Drie Tabbetjes on the Tapanahoni River in the interior, who told the following story...
...fight had gone far, there came the Gold Rush of '49. To Daniel Hale Haskell, an Adams Express clerk, this was a great enticement, which soon led him off to start a California branch. In June 1852, Samuel P. Carter arrived in San Francisco to be general agent for Wells, Fargo & Co. There followed a rip-roaring battle between the two express companies. From it, Writer Wilson has neatly plucked the vivid incidents, paid little attention to dullish corporate detail...
...toward Schwerin. This was the luxurious train of the Realmleader, and only a handful of officials knew his destination. It had not been known that Adolf Hitler would orate over the corpse from Switzerland. In the eyes of bored neutrals, nothing had happened except that the No. I Nazi Agent in the Swiss Republic, little-known Wilhelm...