Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their porches and look out upon water-logged fields where nothing will grow. Where cotton has been planted, the farmers are faced with a new menace - a pestilence of worms which cut through the young plants as though with sharp saws. Said C. P. Seab, agricultural demonstration agent for the parish of Concordia: "In all America there are no people more penniless, un happy and with so little hope as these. "And Sheriff E. P. Campbell of Concordia said that 90% of the people in Texas and Catahoula had "not a cent in the world." Mayor Hall Allen of Tallulah...
...dark rumors that he bore Mr. Levine ill will, flew with Maurice Drouhin to London in the Levine-owned Columbia, to show the Frenchman its tricks and abilities. From London, Maurice Drouhin and the Columbia conveyed Mr. Levine back to Paris, where Mr. Levine rejoined his attorney and press agent...
...extra" was the work of no Hot Springs newspaper, that it was evidently a publicity stunt for the film, Tell It To The Marines, starring Lon Chaney, showing that night at a local theatre owned by one Sidney M. Nutt. Chief Wakelin instantly caused Mr. Nutt's press agent, one Charles Hefley, to be arrested...
...court, Mr. Nutt promised to pay back the pennies taken from citizens by the "extra" gutter beagles. Press Agent Hefley explained: "The stunt would not have gone over if the boys had given the papers away as circulars...
WILLIAM ELEAZAR BARTON, 66, Oak Park, Ill.; retired as clergyman, active as writer, father of Bruce Barton, famed advertising agent...