Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then a flurry of circumstances had caused him to cease buying newspapers; he had found he got on comfortably without them and his answer to his own question was implied: Not a particle of difference. "Isn't it possible that most of us overdo the newspaper habit?" And Agent Barton adduced the example of President Roosevelt, who freed his mind of "all the pull and tug of the nonessential" by having his secretaries clip and paste up the essence of each day's news...
...This intelligently savage Savaron biography is an improvisation upon his own. But Mr. Hecht, though dark, shaggy and demonaical of mien, managed to continue for 13 years as a trusted employe of The Chicago Journal and The Chicago Daily News; he is now at large in Manhattan as press agent for Joseph Schildkraut in The Firebrand. Aged 31, he has a wife and two children. He is kind to dogs, children and old people. From this it would appear that his state of mind, however uncomfortable it may be when he writes, is not without some solace...
...friend Mazzei as a social equal to Virginia. Mazzei was an Italian physician, who had been a merchant for a few years in Smyrna, and later in London, before coming to Virginia. After Mazzei's return to Europe from Virginia, he held various important positions, among others, financial agent for Virginia in Europe, and privy councillor to the King of Poland. The two friends corresponded for years on intimate terms. In the Library of Congress there is preserved the correspondence between Jefferson and Bellini, covering a period of 20 years. It does not seem that Jefferson would write long...
During the past month, newspapers have devoted much space to recent experiments performed by Prof. Molgaard of Denmark in attempting to treat tuberculosis with a chemical substance containing a certain amount of gold. The idea of gold as a therapeutic agent has always had a peculiar fascination for both the public and the physician, so that "gold cures" have been available for practically every type of ill from which mankind may suffer. Unfortunately, none of these "cures" has thus far stood the test of scientific observation. The method devised by Prof. Molgaard has been tested on animals in his laboratories...
Last week, the Reparations Commission published the Agent General's stipend. It was almost two-thirds of the President's salary, more than double the amount paid to America's highest paid Ambassador, nearly five times the average salary of a State Governor, more than six times the pay of a Congressman. Precisely, it was $47,500 per annum...