Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complications make this less attractive to the patriot and one hundred per cent national publicity agent than casual glance could suggest. For South Bend is alter all but one city in one part of the country. What hope then is there for all the other cities in all the other parts? Though one can boast of local morals and another of local anesthetics. South Bend alone can boast of twins joined together in infancy, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see with your own eyes. So an era of provincial inferiority complexes awaits those cities who see no future...
...Folk originally sued for $602,924. Her attorneys produced documentary evidence that an agent for Zaghlul Pasha contracted with Lawyer Folk in 1919 to further the cause of Egyptian independence by propaganda in the U. S. at a salary of $5,000 a month. In addition he was to receive approximately half a million dollars upon the successful conclusion of his work. All this was to be paid "by the Egyptian people...
...Folk carried on his propaganda from July, 1919, to January, 1921, but received only $5,000 up to the time of his death (1923). The Zaghlulist Wafd subsequently repudiated the entire debt on the ground that Zaghlul's agent was not empowered to make any such arrangement with Mr. Folk. Per contra, the Folk attorneys contended that Zaghlul Pasha and his agent, Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, did authoritatively represent "the Egyptian nation" in 1919. Zaghlul, famed as "the first native Egyptian Premier (1924) since Cleopatra's day," was, in 1919, President of the Egyptian delegation to the Peace Conference...
...Remo treaty of 1920. This left the U. S. out of consideration and was so vigorously protested that the British, French and Dutch interests eventually permitted the U. S. a quarter share of the work and rewards. But one Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian banker, millionaire and onetime business agent of defunct Sultan Abdul Hamid, held a neat 5% of the Turkish Petroleum Co., under whose 75-year exploitation concession the internationals intended to operate...
...Among the first to read Mme. Calvé's protest was William J. Guard, kindly press agent of the Metropolitan, who watches over his flock like a mother hen. He fumed, he fussed, he ruffled his feathers, flapped his great wings, said...