Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ledbetter Lee "is Mr. Rockefeller's publicity agent and Mr. Schwab's publicity agent and, I believe, the British Government's publicity agent," said Shearer. "They paid him $150,000 to keep the navy and merchant marine situation before the public, but they got very little or nothing out of it. I was the only man that ever gave them service...
...experience with White Motor Co., goes back to 1913 when at the age of 24 he became a salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
Yale's move, no different than that of Harvard, has been distorted through the agent of a curious sensational press into an object of ridicule for which the unfortunate chance remark of President Angell can not be held solely responsible. This journalistic white lie evokes the unintelligent indignation of prattling flappers where a more fortunate representation might have conveyed a point of view that in its larger aspects can hardly be said to be unintelligent...
With this trust, lies the responsibility of which the present action of the Budget Committee, is significant, namely, the frequent publication of figures, the full release of information regarding all those activities in which the Council as the agent of the undergraduate is participating. A more intimate knowledge on the part of the undergraduate in the work of the Council would react to the mutual advantage of both parties...
Another of those random thoughts was this brave offer: "The Chemical Foundation stands ready to bear all the expenses of any commission "the President may care to appoint to inquire into the vast possibilities of chemistry as an agent of peace, outlawing war by its terrors, advancing health and prosperity by its humane discoveries...