Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inept revenue agent...
...disheartening to learn that Captain Kidd was only an inept revenue agent, but these histories have their compensations. Henry Morgan of Jamaica comes up to scratch as the bellicose gentleman adventurer. No brigand could be more fearsome than Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects...
...Egyptian Theatre to see Charles S. Chaplin in The Gold Rush? the picture 9,000 feet long which has taken him two years to make and of which he had remarked: "This is the picture I want to be remembered by, heedless of the fact that his press agent was listening...
Last week, Seymour Parker Gilbert Jr., Agent General of Reparations, made the first extensive report on the operations of The Experts' Plan, which was put into effect at the conclusion of the London Conference last year (TIME, Aug. 25, Sept...
...Parker, 32 years old, tall, slender, brown-haired and blue-eyed, once Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury (a special post created for him) is one of the most important men in Europe and perhaps the most powerful man in Germany. Under the title of Agent General of Reparations, he is responsible for the collection and distribution of moneys paid under the Experts' Plan by Germany on account of reparations. The degree of his power can be gauged by the fact that these moneys, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, are credited to a reparations account...