Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month ago, Judge Atwell called upon two policemen to testify that they had bought a pint of whiskey from Mrs. Angelina de Luca, defendant. Attorney Serri, counsel for the defense, remarked in his summation: "A modern miracle is a prohibition agent who tells the truth on the witness stand." Judge Atwell bristled, thought of the impeccable Texas constabulary. After the conviction he loudly rebuked Mr. Serri, said: "His recital of the bootleggers' game is astonishing to the court, and I cannot understand how any reputable attorney could have such first hand information. . . . In my country had you made such...
...Leach's advertising agent, placing advertisements for Glenwood Ranges, wrote as follows to the Boston Review: "It is Mr. Leach's understanding that in addition to this advertising you will publish in your news columns a story concerning his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant-Governor and also publish additional items each week until the primaries...
Manufacturer Leach replied: ". . . The Glenwood product advertising is placed through an agency and I know nothing about it. We have followed the same procedure in placing Glenwood goods advertising as we have in the past." He said his advertising agent had evidently been "very silly" and that he had "vigorously called him to account...
...begins when Wick Snell, a laconic newshawk, leaves his job to become a press agent. The next act discovers Public...
Eloped. Mark Hanna 3d, great-grandson of the late Senator Mark Hanna ("the President-maker"); with Miss Catherine Backus, daughter of a Cleveland pump agent; from Cleveland, Ohio...