Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...views in much greater detail than would have been possible otherwise, and magazines and publishers are after me to write articles. I must really pay Count Szechenyi a commission on what I get for my articles. I think 10% would be about right. He is a very good press agent...
...which Polish Silesians had paid to the Berlin Government as premiums on compulsory social insurance. Germany did not object, but a reminder from the Polish Government in January that the amount was shortly falling due elicited this reply from Berlin : "Apply to S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General of Reparations] to have the amount deducted from the reparations payments." The matter came to light, last week, when Secretary General of the League, Sir Eric Drummond, informed the Agent General and the German Government that the Council will discuss in its June session Germany's failure to pay its debt...
...post of agent to Tangier...
...Argument. The opponents of Mr. Warren declared that he had been implicated in improper relations with the "Sugar Trust." Some 20 years ago, he acted as agent for the American Sugar Refining Co. in acquiring stock in a number of Michigan sugar refineries. Lately, he has been President of the Michigan Sugar Refining Co., a consolidation which came out of these companies later. Some years ago, the "Sugar Trust" was investigated by Congress. Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator Walsh had cross-examined Mr. Warren on that occasion. They brought up the former investigation in their speeches. Senator Reed...
...Object. The expedition will go to India this spring, ascend the Indus and establish a base in the Vale of Kashmir about May. Mr. Cherrie is to be the advance agent, preparing arrangements there before the Roosevelts arrive. In early May or June, as soon as the snow melts from the passes of the Himalayas, the party will cross and continue its explorations on the plateau of Pamir and beyond toward the Tian Shan Mountains...