Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began at $50 per year at Mr. Ullman's country store, and before he was 20 had been post-office manager, express and freight agent and During his thirties he took up the practice of law in Chicago, and in 1893, when all other Democrats were defeated, he was elected Judge of the Superior Court...
...nation has been stirred to applaud. And since it "is heralded on the Princeton Campus as the forerunner of the system of self-education which starts next fall", its success seems assured. One writer suggests invidiously that the episode was a mere object lesson engineered by the university press agent, but such suspicion is unbecoming. He should recognize in this the growing desire for student self-expression...
...born in Alexandria of Greek and Russian parentage, he is a French citizen, living for a good part of each year in a magnificent chateau outside Paris. His French citizenship, however, does not deter him from accepting and using a British title. His apparent business is Continental sales agent for Vickers and other large munitions factories in Britain; beneath and beyond this no man knows the limit of his influence. He is also a great philanthropist, having established large numbers of orphanages throughout Europe...
...organizations and individuals are ready to pay to get their names in the papers and how valuable a young, presentable bachelor may make himself in the incessant social life of Washington. He capitalized both discoveries and soon made connections with a large, conservative, lobbying organization while doing unofficial press agent work for a few semi-prominent personalities on the side...
Rollo Peters, who plays Romeo to Jane Cowl's Juliet: "I am excited! My press agent announced that one of my relatives, digging in old genealogical records, believes he has discovered that I am descended from Shakespeare...