Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He is in charge of Prohibition enforcement. He was put in charge to take the Prohibition unit out of politics. In so doing he appointed Herbert H. White Prohibition Administrator at Fort Worth, with jurisdiction over Oklahoma. Mr. White ousted from office Prohibition agent, the Rev. Mr. Thoroughman* of Lawton, Okla. Several churches objected. Last week the following letter from U. S. Senator Harreld, Republican of Oklahoma, to Mr. Andrews was made public...
...this may seem a delightful topic for a clergyman's address. But to anyone who has a sincere interest either in the church or in religion it is but one more bugle call in the crazed crusade of notoriety seekers who think the troubles of the church good press agent material. For some time now the attempt on the part of certain New York preachers to fill their churches and to cover themselves with glory, has made of religion the farce which many people delight in thinking it. Truly great preachers like Dr. Fosdick whose stand has been unique...
...teemed, smelled, echoed last week with the Tenth National Exposition of the Chemical Industries. "Catalysis recreates industries .... Chemistry catalyzes Commerce"-those were the slogans in the American Chemical Society's salon. The keynote of the show was: how Science accelerates reactions in the business world, like a catalytic agent, without itself changing character. Purely, austerely scientific are the training and practice of a modern chemist. Of enormous commercial value, and hence of social significance, are his works where he is employed, he and a thousand brother experimenters, by interests like Du Pont, Ford, Eastman, Bell...
...West Virginia coal fields are unionized only in small part. But Van A. Bittner, agent of the United Mine Workers, has been busy there trying to bring that region under the Union's dominance. He issued a strike order that took effect last week, and the mine leaders led by Mr. Lewis went down to celebrate the opening of the strike in an effort to make it successful...
...Gilbert, 33, sailed last October to Europe to become Agent General of Reparations, called by some "the biggest job in the world...