Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wear badges to avoid selling to each other. Word had been passed out by the liquor dealers of the Wiseonsin hamlet that here was "one place in God's country" that was a "man's town for real men," and intimated in no uncertain terms that the first prohibition agent to make his presence known would find the vicinity unhealthy...
...concerned nations in agreement, some remedy for the situation may soon be found. Such a result is to be hoped for. If Germany could be made to see that her present tactics are futile, she might finally settle down to a steadier level of action, and become a reductive agent in the markets of the world. But further procrastination is apt to be disastrous to the Allie's and Germany as well...
...right way, he will find that he is very much like the average person. In my experience, I have found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find...
...work in Pittsburg but there are 500 jobs open in Chicago. Contrary to the general opinion, this situation does not balance, for the unskilled man in Pittsburg is quite unlikely to have enough funds saved to permit him to go to Chicago. Even if he should let the employment agent pay his expense, he might reach that city only to find that he couldn't keep the job, and yet had no money with which to return to Pittsburg. For this reason the laboring man is inclined to stay in the same community or in the immediate vicinity...
...agent of the Boston and Albany Railroad who is selling railroad tickets and pullman accommodations via the Boston and Albany and New York Central lines at the Harvard Cooperative Store each day from 9.30 A. M. to 4.30 P. M., is prepared to give detailed information concerning trains on any line...