Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...
...chaser's enemy is the claim agent who tries to get the injured person to disclaim damages, or take at most a small money settlement. Insurance companies have such agents, and street car companies, railroads, taxicab systems...
...Request. Bill Abbott (Elliott Nugent) is a tanktown newsman summering in Manhattan for business reasons. Claudia Wynn (Verree Teasdale), a blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely...
...produces in their bodies the nodules peculiar as symptoms of tuberculosis, but of no other disease. Said R. J. Anderson of Yale: "This discovery that a nonliving substance may be the cause ot tubercular growth, opens up an entirely new mode of approach in the search for an immunizing agent. In the past there has been no way of proving whether the growth of the tubercle in tubercular organisms was the result of direct action of the living bacillus...
Such an amateur did overhear, last week, part of a conversation between the "biggest" National City Bank and its Berlin agent. The conversation concerned another famed banking house, Brown Bros., with which National City was linked in a German financing deal. From the eavesdropping amateur there came to Brown Bros, a transcript of the talk. Brown Bros, did not like the National City talk. Puzzled, Brown Bros, asked explanations. National City, astonished, gave them. Still friends, still associates, the two banks resolved upon more cautious, coded communications...