Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 9), the grand jury was concluding its work. It indicted 60 officials, gamblers and divekeepers on charges of conspiracy, bribery, perjury, obstruction of justice. At the top of the heap were State Attorney General Edward Lewis O'Connor; his first assistant; State Treasurer Leo Wegman and a State agent...
...natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against it would fall on their heads. By last week Republican efforts to hang responsibility for the unpopular Act on President Roosevelt had become so vehement that New Dealers felt obliged to have Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson observe in his weekly propaganda letter: "It just happens that the day the potato program was tacked on the AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately, or unfortunately, the President cannot veto part of a bill. He has got to accept or reject the whole thing and they...
...Live For Love" concerns the press agent who must make the theatre star and radio singer amorous when they hate each other and hostile when they love. Dolores del Rio is lovely in white ermine. While the voice of Everett Marshall fails to carry conviction, it is pleasant for an hour's entertainment. Allan Jenkins escapes from city pavements to reach the heights of Nijinsky when he gives his interpretation of a ballet performance...
...about the predicament he is in. A young Canadian named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), he finds himself one evening, as the result of nothing more daring than a visit to a London music hall, entertaining in his fiat a girl who tells him that she is a counter-espionage agent protecting England from an international ring which is selling the secrets of the Air Ministry and that she has just committed a murder. Hannay considers this nonsense until the next morning, when he finds his guest dying with a knife in her back. Thus assured of her veracity, he constitutes...
...legal and accounting fees involved in preparing an issue or may have spent months advising the company on a comprehensive financial program of which the bonds are only a part. But in the present money market it is clearly cheaper for super-solvent corporations to use a selling agent on commission...