Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning the Special arrived at Cedar City and the party took a 130-mile automobile ride through Zion National Park. The roads were bad; the alkali dust and the heat were terrific, and the party on the whole was miserable. The trip was a " press agent" stunt for the park, engineered by Senator Smoot and the Union Pacific Railroad (according to Mr. Kent). According to Mr. Kent, also, Senator Smoot's complacent smile "was well calculated to raise the blood pressure...
...expected that Mr. Leffingwell's immediate duties in J. P. Morgan & Co. will be in connection with the British payment of her U. S. war debt which the firm will handle as fiscal agent for Great Britain. This work will take years to consummate and unnusual financial ability to direct. Mr. Leffingwell's knowledge of official Washington should greatly assist him in this new task...
...same " or " just as good " sent; goods not sent in parcels of the correct size; no attention paid to wrapping them up in wrappers that are proof against the elements. The article advises U. S. firms to exercise the greatest care in choosing their representatives, as " one dishonest agent does much harm not only to his firm but to his country-more than enough to offset the work of 20 honest agents." It also points out that in the minds of the gullible " having no previous knowledge of Americans-the conclusion is, not that that particular salesman is a rascal...
...story of a real estate agent, Mr. J. Lowrison, of No. 7 Goldsmith Square, Stoke Newington, who wrote: " If you will help me in finding a young wife?I will help you in getting a house." Specifications for the young lady: " About 30, short, dark, domesticated...
...legitimate brokerage firm acts as an agent for public customers in the purchase and sale of securities. It also obtains credit for such customers, thus enabling them to buy "on margin." If, for example, an investor buys through a brokerage house 100 shares of U. S. Steel stock at $100 per share, he can either pay the purchase price of $10,000, or he can deposit with the broker $2,000, say, as "margin" and let the broker obtain the remaining $8,000 for him. This the broker does by paying the seller the $10,000 due, and then borrowing...