Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Federal Judge John S. Partridge threw out evidence obtained against an alleged bootlegger in a raid. He did so because the raid was conducted under a search warrant sworn out by a Prohibition agent under an assumed name. Said the court: "No sworn affidavit that deliberately misstates facts will be recognized by this court." Federal agents have been swearing out search warrants under assumed names in order to hide their identity and thereby maintain their usefulness. The action of Judge Partridge will probably result in the dismissal of several hundred cases against alleged bootleggers in which warrants were sworn...
...days previously, Richard H. Cole of St. Louis, the man who obtained U. S. recognition for Presidents Madero and Carranza, and who is now U. S. agent for the President-aspirant, Adolfo de la Huerta who was last year beaten by President Obregon (TIME, July 14, 1924) in the most recent of Mexico's civil wars-this man Cole called upon President Coolidge at Swampscott, failed to find him at home...
Yoakum. Benjamin F. Yoakum of Manhattan is a railroad man. His father was a doctor and a minister in Texas. The son began his career as a "colonization agent" of a Texas railroad. He rose, became a railroad president (St. Louis & San Francisco). He gave "much thought" to the cost of living, etc. In February, 1922, he came forward with a plan for funding foreign War debts to the U. S. He proposed that the debtor nations issue to the U. S. 4½% 50-year bonds with a sinking fund of 2% yearly. With these as collateral...
President von Hindenburg received S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparations, at the Executive Mansion on the Wilhelmstrasse...
Like many a foreign celebrity of fewer attainments, he has permitted himself to be blatantly touted in the U. S. by one Lee Keedick, Manhattan publicity agent, will soon cross the Atlantic for a lecture tour...