Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third week of last month Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparation Payments, perhaps the most powerful official in Germany, penned a stern, firm, yet friendly warning to the German Government that its extravagances were endangering the fiscal equilibrium of the Reich and imperiling the Dawes Plan...
...That the Government, by increasing its own expenses, had led to extravagance in the state governments. In particular the Agent General scored the system of collecting taxation, which is carried out by the Federal authorities, who then allot a certain share to each of the states. Mr. Gilbert's opinion is that this system in itself leads to unnecessary spending...
...this talk about the young folks going to the dogs and drinking themselves blind is pure nonsense. They are youthful and filled with sap and vinegar, but that does not mean that they are a gang of inebriates." In such a manner, W. E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Federal prohibition agent, smilingly told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that college men today are "all right...
...Europe is rather free from prohibition laws, but there is, nevertheless a considerable movement towards a restriction on alcohols," indicated the prohibition agent, who spends a large part of his time in Europe, and who has his main office in London...
...accuse that man of being an agent of Moscow. I swear it a thousand times!" roared another witness for the prosecution, pointing an accusatory forefinger at M. Schwartzbard...