Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York branch. Still fresh in the minds of art followers are the $500,000 damage suit of the elder Demotte against Sir Joseph Duveen, London dealer, for reflections upon the authenticity of art works sold by Demotte; the melodramatic trial in Paris of Jean Vigoroux, former agent of Demotte, which precipitated many wild charges of fakery in the Metropolitan, Louvre, etc.; and the accidental death of Demotte by a gunshot at the hand of a friend, on a hunting trip last Summer (TIME, June 11, July 23, Sept. 17). The Duveen suit is not yet settled, but the Vigoroux affair...
...Radio Corporation, in November 1919, took over the properties, patents and licenses of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., and subsequently entered into agreements with companies controlling practically all patents covering radio devices, which made the Radio Corporation the selling agent for these companies. Such patents are gradually running out, however; the Fleming patent on the vacuum tube expired in 1922, and such tubes are now sold ro the public by several competing firms...
...Chancellor was at one time an attaché in the German Embassy at Washington under Count von Bernstorff, in which capacity he acted as fiscal agent of the Wilhelmstrasse (German Foreign Office) and is said to have disbursed $40,000,000 for war propaganda purposes. His last appointment was as Minister of Finance in the Cuno Cabinet...
...system of music, based on the theory that harmonious sound is a social agent...
...including congenital syphilis! If it is desired to test a patient directly, he takes the place of the " re-agent" in the circuit...