Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Passenger Agent Northern Pacific...
...went to work at 16 without the benefit of education interspersed with footballs. At the age of 22 he became a member of the reorganized firm of Samuel Cupples & Co., St. Louis, and re mained its manager for a quarter century. During that time the Cupples Company was agent for many firms; owner of potent enterprises. So shrewd was Mr. Brookings' management of the Cupples fortunes and his own that 32 years ago he retired. Thereafter he devoted his keen talents to education and benevolence. President of Washington University Corporation, St. Louis; President of Robert Brookings Graduate School...
...goes on and practical experience accumulates, it becomes always clearer that neither the reparations problem nor the other problems depending thereon will be finally solved until Germany has been given a definite task to perform on her own responsibility, without foreign supervision and without the transfer problem." The modest Agent Gilbert envisioned and recommended the proximate abolition of the very bureau over which he presides...
...standpoint of reparations, continues to be the large foreign loans being made to German states and municipalities. Over 3,950,000,000 gold marks ($940,100,000) of such liabilities are outstanding, and the funds which they represent have produced conditions bordering on "boom prosperity" in some areas. Agent Gilbert sternly warned that under Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles the repayment of such loans is made secondary to and contingent upon the prompt payment of reparations. He concluded: "The States and communes have played a major part in the gen eral tendency toward spending in excess of resources...
...foreign motor cars from imported parts in Germany is an evasion of the duty on imported automobiles." A further escapade by the Deputies, last week, was to pass 333 to 53 a bill increasing the salaries of Government officials which had been explicitly deplored as "extravagant" by the Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert (See REPARATIONS REPORT...