Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British U. S., Russian diplomats fight it out for the balance of power. The dastardly Bolshevik spies perpetrate villainous deeds. Especially reprehensible is the smooth lady-spy who opens the door every time state secrets are being discussed. Fortunately for civilization, Matt Moore, U. S. Secret Service agent, marches capably before the camera whenever conditions become too crucial...
With this terse encouraging prelude Mr. S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations, announced last week on the second anniversary of the inauguration of the Dawes Plan, that he has received this year 1,211,950,000 gold marks ($288,444,100) in reparations payments. For the first time a portion of the transfers were made in cash, totaling 65,000,000 gold marks, of which the U. S. received $5,904,770. This sum amounts to roughly 2½% of the total of $245,000,000 scheduled for payment to the U. S. within 20 years under the Dawes...
...German tax receipts to and beyond the point at which it is provided in the Dawes Plan that the Allies shall be given a share in the tax surplus. Irate German editors bewailed "this excess of taxation, now to be wasted in reparations payments." Harassed, Finance Minister Reinhold sought Agent Gilbert. Between them they arrived at an amiable compromise whereby a portion of these surplus reparations will be remitted to Germany in consideration of her punctuality to date...
...always house furnishings are noted, with the piercing significance and tenderness that made Amy Lowell so distinctly a poet of her time and place, racy. Titles intimate the subjects: "The House in Main Street," "The Note Book in the Gate-Legged Table," "The Rosebud Wall-Paper," "The Real Estate Agent's Tale." The title of the collection came, perhaps, out of Amy Lowell's love for a fresh breeze off the ocean, bringing rain to dry New England in hot summer. It might stand for herself, who blew with sharp zest through lives and times notoriously parched...
...Boris Kraevsky, Soviet Commercial Agent to South America, cabled jubilantly last week to Moscow. He had just secured the first de jure recognition of Soviet Russia by a South American state- Uruguay. To newsgatherers he said: "My mission consists purely in establishing commercial relations between the U. S. S. R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: Russia) and South America. . . . Yes, I have installed a central office in Buenos Aires. . . . During the past eight months our purchases of Uruguayan products have totaled...