Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agent of a British armament firm, Nordenfeldt's, gave him a job selling guns in the Balkans, at ?5 a week. Zaharoff was 28. Nordenfeldt made not only machine-guns but submarines, then a drug on the naval market. When Zaharoff sold a submarine to his native Greece, then sold two to Turkey, he laid the foundations of his fortune and his technique. Nordenfeldt combined with its rival, Maxim Gun Co.; later the combination merged with Vickers. With every step Zaharoff got more commissions, more stock, more power. Soon he was selling armaments all over the world-Russia, Europe...
...later. At Manchester, Ky. in 1932 he participated in a five-hour gunfight which cost the lives of two kinsmen. Last summer this prodigal career reached its cli max when Barrett, pursued by a pair of G-men for violating the Federal motor vehicle theft law, shot and killed Agent Nelson B. Klein at West College Corner, Ind. Last week at Indianapolis, as the first man to be sentenced to death under the new Federal law which makes the killing of a Federal officer a mandatory capital offense, he appealed his conviction...
...Little Lady." With Coquette in 1929, Miss Hayes reached Los Angeles in her 88th week. Her agent took her out to see the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer casting director. The director took one look at the slight little woman with the tipped-up nose and unflattering yellow hair, turned to her agent to ask: "What does the little lady do? What sort of parts does she play? Mmmmm. Well, leave the little lady's name and address and if anything comes up that she might fit into I'll give her a ring." He never...
...Baking Powder, Baker's Chocolate. *Mrs. Hutton's daughter Eleanor was thrice married by the time she was 24. First husband was Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) with whom she eloped. No. 2 was French Poloist Etienne Marie Robert Gautier. No. 3 is George Curtis Rand, Manhattan agent for Bugatti automobiles...
Elected. Raymond Elaine Fosdick, 52, Manhattan attorney, longtime agent and counsel for Rockefeller sociological activties, brother of Rockefeller Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick: to the presidency of the Rockefeller Foundation and of the Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board...