Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should appear suddenly in America today and doing what he did from 1904 to 1912 the various defense societies, security leagues, minute men of the Republic, and 100% Americans would start a whispering campaign that his real name was Fedor Roosevisky, and that he was sent here as an agent of the Bolsheviki...
...stolen, but the U. S. consul at Paris assured her that she would have no trouble re-entering this country. A month ago she arrived on the French liner Paris, was taken to Ellis Island where the Board of Special Inquiry ordered her exclusion. At the request of an agent of the French line, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis ordered her case reopened. Finally last week the board decided that she was the person to whom the. permit to leave and re-enter had been issued, but that the exclusion order must stand. Secretary Davis confirmed the ruling...
...After the battle of Lexington he sailed for England, where he remained until his death." His former popularity saved his estates from confiscation under the "conspirators act," but the Government took possession of his property under the fact for confiscating the estates of certain persons called absentees," and an agent was appointed for its care and management. Royall complained bitterly of this interference, declaring that he fully intended to return to New England, and he was prevented from doing so only by ill health...
...secret at Amherst College that John Coolidge has been guarded by Colonel Edward W. Starling, U. S. Secret Service agent with a delightful Southern drawl, since the opening of school. They live in the same cottage near the campus, and are constantly together except when the President's son is attending classes. Last week the press heard of young Mr. Coolidge's protector for the first time. Forthwith rumors began to brew and circulate. Some said that cranks had been threatening the "First Son of the Land". . . . Others whispered that Colonel Starling's prime duty...
...commercially practicable. This announcement was made and received as being far more important than other fuel-substitute discoveries lately made- coal dust in the U. S. and Germany, fagots in France (Time, Oct. 11). Submitting oxygen, hydrogen and coal to a pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which readily refined to kerosene, gasoline and the usual by-products of that "black gold" which nature only makes after centuries of compression upon organic matter in subterranean strata...