Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death of a young woman riding with an agent in an automobile, extortion of $40 from a Jewish rabbi, criminal assault and assaulting wife. The total number of prohibition enforcement officers convicted after trial...
...These photographs are being sent through the mails, so that the postal service is made an involuntary agent of the propaganda of the enemies of independence...
...that the U. S. debt claims upon France were being held up to ridicule by a loud-voiced Parisian revue performer, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, in Quel Beau Nu at the Concert Mayol, Paris, (TIME, Feb. 8). Swiftly the following cablegram was despatched to the Washington-Lafayette Institute's Paris agent: "Parisys' number Mayol against America bad effect on press here. Will do much harm if continued. See revue; also Oscar Dufrenne, producer; explain what Washington-Lafayette is doing. Cable results...
...agent attended the revue. Next morning he reported to the Institute: "Oscar impressed by your cable. Promises immediate cutting of bad line...
...adequately defined. Some understand it as the graphic record of a current event which is 1) unusual or 2) important. If a corporation president resigns his directorships to accept a job as bus boy, if a senator refuses to make a speech at a public dinner, if a revenue agent stops the sale of liquor ? that is news. Such news may be presented in as entertaining a fashion as possible. But there is another kind of news ? a narrative of events which have often occurred but must be recorded as a matter of form, with dignity and brevity...