Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While those projects were being made presentable for the Interstate Commerce Commission's approval, the Pennsylvania remained remarkably quiet. Last week, through its Baltimore Sun agent, it demanded: " 1) A line paralleling the N. Y. C. along the Erie lake shore from or near Brockton, some 50 miles west of Buffalo, to Toledo; 2) Ownership or joint control of the Lackawanna as a means of relieving the present main line of the Pennsylvania from Harrisburg, Pa., to Trenton, N. J., of traffic congestion; 3) A short freight line from Chicago to St. Louis, preferably the Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...what he has in a bundle, even though the contents of that bundle take the shape of a bottle. It might be a bottle of something other than liquor," said Judge Louis H. Burns of the U. S. District Court in New Orleans, to the Prohibition agent who arrested one John Masera. When Mr. Masera was accosted on the street by the Prohibition agent, he had quickly smashed his bottle of liquor on the pavement. Judge Burns dropped the charges against Mr. Masero without hearing any defense testimony...
Centuries ago the princely archbishops of Falzburg, all-powerful in the city, gave welcome to the drama as a religious agent. They presented the pageant of Saints in Splendor, the drama of God and Satan warring for the soul...
...bespectacled Doctor; and therefore he won a momentous point last week, by securing the extension of his contract. Against him are the old, vastly rich Persian families whom he has taxed; secondly, the many politicians whose powers he has curbed through controlling their salaries; and lastly, the numerous agents of Soviet Russia in Persia who have thoroughly satisfied themselves that Dr. Millspaugh is the chief agent of a vast Anglo-U. S. conspiracy to seize the oil and opium lands of Persia. The Doctor, although thus powerfully opposed, has greatly and vastly succeeded...
Thomas Edison's European agent was the man who brought the young Tesla to the U. S. After his first job for Mr. Edison?an all-night job putting a steamer's lighting plant in commission?Mr. Edison ejaculated to an associate: "This is a damn good...