Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scandals. He excused only those talesmen who said they had formed a firm opinion as to Sinclair's guilt or innocence. The twelve that were sworn were three grocers, a steamfitter, a repair man, an auto salesman, two clerks, a merchant, an expressman, a broker, a railroad agent-all men. Though few of them knew it, all these men had been investigated and watched by Sinclair detectives before being sworn as his jury. While they were being picked, Sinclair, surrounded by his lawyers, ticked off their names on the sleuths' report and scrutinized their faces...
...Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, stopped fashionably in Rome last week at the Hotel Excelsior. One morning there called for him a twinkling limousine in which sat a scrubby bearded Roman of alert, engaging mien. Soon Agent Gilbert stepped into the limousine and sped away for a day of motoring and converse with Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi, famed co-negotiator with Secretary Mellon of the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
...Governor Smith of New York State launched an investigation of President Connolly's sewer system (TIME, Jan. 2). The system consisted, allegedly, in President Connolly's appointment of a special city engineer who specified a certain type of lock-joint pipe for Queens sewers. The sole local agent for the required pipe was President Connolly's good friend, one John M. Phillips. Monopolist Phillips sat back in his office swigging milk and whiskey, dictating pipe prices to contractors, growing rich. Borough President Connolly did not grow any poorer...
...Manhattan and the friend of many an important personage of Wall Street. When he gave a dinner it was well attended. At one such dinner he presented his idea of a trust company that would not compete for business with commercial banks; but would act as the fiduciary agent for state and national banks throughout the country, and would accept as deposits the reserve funds of other banks...
...dentrifice and soap company. Precedent, however, was broken last week when the office of vice president, director and general manager of Colgate & Co. was given to Wallace E. McCaw. Senior vice president and chairman of the administrative board of Procter & Gamble, he became last year Colgate's purchasing agent. Gilbert Colgate is chairman of the board, Gilbert Colgate Jr. secretary and vice president in charge of purchasing, Robert Bangs Colgate director and vice president in charge of production and development...