Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year William Larsen, a Department of Justice secret agent, changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law violation which he had not committed. Warden John W. Snook received him as any other prisoner...
With the name of the Smithsonian Institution to conjure guards and secretaries, a polite book agent worked his way to the presence of Chief Justice Taft. The Smithsonian Institution, related the book agent, was preparing a 12-volume survey of Science. The first edition was to be strictly limited to 875 copies. Only 875 world leaders, like Mr. Taft, would be permitted to purchase those sets. Each set would carry the owner's name. Mr. Taft would be aiding the Smithsonian Institution by buying a set. The price was only...
...fifty years. Originally there was the drummer whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman who again tried more or less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element has been stressed, sales methods developed for the benefit of the retailer, until now the term "travelling representative" is much more fact than fiction. Manufacturers today seek to keep the good will of the purchaser, and try in every way to keep...
...institute to absorb all the functions of the present Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, and of the Reparations Commission and the transfer committee...
Vivacious and increasingly competent as an actress, Lupe Velez was born in San Luis Potosi, seven days by donkey from Mexico City. When she was twelve she danced at a church festival. A booking agent, impressed, hired her as ballerina for a theatrical troupe. Her family thought a convent would be better for her. After two years in Our Lady of the Lake, at San Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month...