Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English government by a schooner sailing for Acapulco, Mexico. An American business man secured passage on this schooner, and Prime Minister Judd en trusted to him protests against the action of Captain Paulet, to be presented to the American and English governments. Arriving at Acapulco, the English despatch agent and the American sought sleeping accommodations, but later on the American arose, and hiring every mule and burro available, left Acapulco, leaving no means of transportation for the English Agent. Crossing Mexico, a steamer to New York was available, and the despatches of Prime Minister Judd reached England in advance...
...newsgatherer had the temerity to ask grief-stricken Amanullah if it were true that Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence, British secret agent, had a part in stirring up the revolution...
...Vincent Pecha, Czech railway ticket-agent, was making a comfortable meal of fried veal and beer in the station restaurant at Hidas Németi, Hungarian frontier town...
...Prague, of another Czech spy-a Czech working against his own country. Capt. Jaroslaf Falout, Czechoslovak general staff officer, carelessly left a suitcase in the cabin of a Prague-Berlin airplane. The contents of the suitcase were so interesting that he was immediately arrested, charged with being a German agent, charged also with the more lucrative, more prosaic crime of forging officers' leave permits...
Last week, however, the D. T. & I. flowers drooped slightly and the employes were somewhat perturbed. The big-lettered F O R D on D. T. & I. bridges was destined soon to disappear. Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. had sold his property to an unannounced purchaser. Agent in the transaction was the firm of Charles D. Barney & Co., Manhattan brokers. Probable real purchaser was Pennroad Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad holding company. Whoever the new buyer, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's Ole Massa had certainly sold it down the river...