Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Journalist Lawson all nations needed only to be known to be beloved. Properly to interpret a nation it might be necessary sometimes to persuade its statesmen to words or deeds not originally their own. The Lawson idea thus combined pedagogy with journalism. As executed by its chief agent, Pundit Bell, the Lawson idea has often raised resentment in the breasts of other, more shirtsleeve newsmen. From his contacts with statesmen, Pundit Bell long ago contracted the habit of talking like one. Where a few journalists are gathered together, he unconsciously addresses them as an oracle from some other world. There...
...Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman said: ''We have been trying to get him for a long time. He has been suspected of participating in a bootleg ring that has brought large quantities of liquor into the country." The Count de Polignac is in charge of foreign agents for the French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president. Often he travels in Canada, in South America, less often in the U. S. Last summer he was in Algiers. Arrested with the Count last week...
...supersede Reparations Agent Seymour Parker Gilbert in the handling of reparations payments...
Amtorg, Am-Derutra. Full name of Amtorg is American Trading Organization. Ask curly-haired Saul George Bron, Am-torg Board Chairman, if Amtorg is a Russian governmental agent and he will become voluble in explaining that it is a U. S. corporation, organized in 1924, and no Soviet arm. Nevertheless, Amtorg, like Amkino, Am-Derutra, and many another Russian trading corporation, acts with the approval and the co-operation of the Soviet government, or specifically, with the Soviet Supreme Economic Council...
...suddenly as Samuel Insull's power interests came into the investigation, they went out, when Charles O'Malley, Boston advertising agent referred to in Carberry's letter, testified he had not mentioned Insull to Carberry; had mentioned, instead, two Manhattan brokers, one Campion, one Colloran, who wanted to buy the Post for "other interests...