Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed revolutionary statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow Sun Yat-sen a devout widow, traveled the brilliant and astute Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin. M. Borodin has been the intermediary between Moscow and Canton since before the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen. One of his few false moves was to keep the Cantonese waiting for weeks while a ceremonial coffin was being brought from Moscow for the dead Dr. Sun. When...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
Fifty men will make the trip. An advance agent will travel a day ahead of the main group to make all last minute arrangements and preparations. Two special Pullman cars will be used throughout the whole trip. At most of the dances, the Gold Coast Orchestra will supply the music...
...collection therein, of Dowager Baroness Michelham, the house once home of the spidery-signatured Marquis of Salisbury, Britain's onetime most aristocratic Premier. The Dowager Baroness Michelham put up the art collection at public auction. International buyers came to the house, with cohorts, many of them, of mysterious agent-bidders, "Mr. X," "Mr. Y," "Mr. Z." Sir Joseph Duveen was in the U. S. But Sir Joseph's in fluence was felt. As often before, he secured most of the cream. He expressed his intention of transferring it to the U. S. Very possibly Maecenas Huntington, who ever...
These port records have been sought after a number of years by various collectors and although they were recently located by an agent of the Historical Society, they were bought up by another man before funds were available to the Society. Their second reappearance on the market was the signal for a quick purchase by the agent of the business libraries...