Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whisked Mrs. Cyrus Jr. to Chicago in the record time of 16 hours, 55 minutes. Mrs. Cyrus Jr., or her husband, paid $7,037 for the ride. Mrs. McCormick, the only passenger, traveled with a full train crew. She tipped the Pullman conductor $50, the porter $30, a passenger agent $50. And that was all there was to that, except that a lone lady seldom hires a special train, as she would a taxicab, and the newspapers simply had to tell about it. There must be some mysterious attraction in Chicago to necessitate such a gesture. No, said the McCormicks...
...generation ago they were novel, might have continued so yet. But Judge Gary who invented them-something few of the younger businessmen know-applied them practically to the conduct of the U. S. Steel Corp., when in 1901 he took command as J. P. Morgan Sr.'s* direct agent...
Minnie Elizabeth Webster, a moving picture agent in New York, has written to R. P. MacFladden '26, asking him to suggest some names of men who might qualify for the silver screen. If Miss Webster finds the man she is looking for, he will not have to work up from the bottom of the moving picture business, as a leading part is prepared and awaits only the right man to fill...
...Joseph Schildkraut. Neil Hamilton, Lou Tellegen. Arthur Edmund Carew, and the wonderful Russian actor, Ivan Lebedeff, are some of my artists. I have placed three with D. W. Griffith and I am Rex Ingram's agent in America...
...casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week at auction in Manhattan brought $21,500. Book Agent Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, always quietly stubborn in bidding for a book he wants...