Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the regret of short, round-faced Boss O'Connell when the spatter of bullets broke the peace of his demesne on an early morning of last week. Into the heart of "The Gut" had marched Prohibition Agents Irving Washburn and Wilfred Grisson, bent on arrest. Suddenly, a group swarmed from an open doorway. Guns were drawn, fired. Agent Grisson escaped uninjured. But Agent Washburn fell to the pavement, mortally wounded...
...general manager of the Pittsburgh Wire Co., who brought his company through the panic by selling half the plant's output in foreign markets. By 1901, when the U. S. Steel Corp. was organized, Mr. Farrell was recognized as the outstanding candidate for the post of foreign sales agent. In 1903, he became head of the corporation's export subsidiary, the U. S. Steel Products Co., and increased foreign sales from $31,000,000 to $90,000,000 in 1912, to $200,000,000 in War time, to well over...
...conspiring to graft on city sewer contracts (TIME, Jan. 2), three other public servants of New York City and one private citizen were indicted last week after long investigations-Maurice E. Connolly, onetime (1911-28) President of the Borough of Queens; John M. Phillips, a sewer-pipe agent, friend of Connolly; Frederick B. Seeley, city engineer; Clifford B. Moore, consulting engineer...
Last year George Remus, squat and muscular, got out of Atlanta Penitentiary after serving a short term for 'legging. He had made millions, had been caught, had got out. He suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed...
Other officials who will lose their present positions by the reorganization are Charles Hart, purchasing agent and Charles Sprague chief accountant. These changes will become effective on the first on next month...