Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like other graduates of Rutgers, other Baptists, other natives of Bloomfield, N. J. His choice of viands at luncheon was to eschew a la carte dishes and accept the table d'hote offered. Fellow passengers continued unconscious that they were actually traveling on the same train with the Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, famed fiscal tidier-up of Europe...
Respectful Englishmen welcomed the Agent General at Dover and arranged his discreet conveyance to a small estate in Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given...
...reaped much vote-getting publicity among the myriads of laboring Britons who have seen him troweling and slathering mortar in the "picture papers." Since the whimsical Chancellor has actually carried his stunt to the extreme of joining a bricklayers' union, he was able to display to Agent Gilbert a union card...
...this were not sufficiently distracting from Reparations, the Agent General was beamingly conducted through the Chancellor's Piggery (TIME. Oct. 22). where fat, nuzzling porkers are stuffed with choicest swill for prize winning purposes. From a source close to Mr. Gilbert it was reported that the grave problems in hand were not seriously attacked until he and Chancellor Churchill went up to London for a formal conference with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
Following the Gilbert-Baldwin-Churchill conference in London, the Agent General returned to Paris, so unobtrusively that even the press did not at first chronicle his coming. After a lengthy conference with French Prime Minister & Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, Mr. Gilbert wired London, with the result that Chancellor Churchill set out for France-encountering very dirty weather on the Channel-and arrived upon the doorstep of the British Embassy in Paris...