Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talents. The Wine Bureau will merely attempt to develop the international wine trade, "in accordance with the laws of each country," by releasing data "tending to demonstrate the beneficial effects of wine," and by sponsoring laboratory experiments "to demonstrate the hygienic qualities of wine and its influence as an agent in the fight against alcoholism (i.e. against "hard liquor...
Married. Louise Vinci Querra, "Queen of Nebraska Bootleggers"; and Earl Manning, onetime dry agent; in Glenwood, Iowa. Agent Manning arrested Queen Querra, fell in love, joined her racket, was arrested, languished in Leavenworth, was recently released...
...three years after that he wrote sporting articles for the Hudson Despatch; he lived with onetime editor of the New York Mirror Phil Payne who a year ago disappeared into the ocean with the airplane Old Glory. After the War he became an agent for a California fruit company. Now he is an independent food broker; a seedy little Irishman, his office in Manhattan is decorated with labelled cans and a print of The Reaper; it has this sign upon the door...
...Morse and her Blue Grass Boys whose voice her press agent proclaims as "That Mellow Swanee Voice" honks I MUST HAVE THAT MAN and MISSISSIPPI MUD. However--done will...
Russia. The Amtorg Trading Corp. of New York, sole U. S. purchasing agent for the Soviet Government and the International General Electric Co. of New York have concluded a deal whereby $25,000,000 worth of U.S. electric apparatus may be sent to Russia within the next five years. Thus was pointedly marked a commercial rapport between the two countries. The Russian press was jubilant over the deal; Economic Life of Moscow talked about a breach in the ''credit blockade...