Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between Mexico and U. S. Senators (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.), approached the conclusion that Publisher Hearst was a knave or a dolt or both. Handwriting experts last week pronounced the documents, for which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot had been afoot. This time the Senators ignored Publisher Hearst...
...served the United States brilliantly and effectively as a special agent of the State Department in Sweden and Russia, and as chief of the inter-allied missions in Vienna and Paris attached to the Peace Conference in 1919. In 1921 he became attached to the American Relief Administration in Russia where he dealt largely with the authorities in the direction of far reaching relief...
Immunity. Dr. Malcolm Herman Soule of the University of Michigan presented a theory that disease germs occur in two forms-one virulent, the other relatively harmless. The presence of the virulent types in the blood incites some agent (its nature yet unknown) to dissociate the virulence, leaving the germs in their mild form. This gentle type the body cells & fluids can easily destroy. It is the presence of that dissociating power, Dr. Soule believes, that renders people immune to disease, rather than any specific germicidal activity of the body fluids...
...Morse '99, purchasing agent for the University, opened negotiations with the Ward Steamship Line for the transportation of the mummified Indians from Yucatan to Cambridge. Mummies were just wasted on the Ward Steamship Line. "Passage costs just $100 per person," they told Mr. Morse...
...second Mr. Remus while insane, i. e. "beside himself", with jealousy, fear and indignation. The first Mr. Remus (attorney) explained that the second Mr. Remus (defendant) had been cuckolded, and his life plotted against, while he was serving a penitentiary term for bootlegging. One Franklin L. Dodge, onetime Prohibition agent, was named as cuckoldor. Attorney Remus argued that Defendant Remus had become Murderer Remus by unbearable provocation from Mr. Dodge and Mrs. Remus and that Defendant Remus had, therefore, been made not only a millionaire but also a martyr by Prohibition...