Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Dawes served overseas from July, 1917, until August, 1919. He was first a Lieutenant Colonel of the Railway Engineers and later promoted to Brigadier General; served on the staff of General Pershing as General Purchasing Agent...
News was flashed from Paris: "Seymour Parker Gilbert Jr. is appointed permanent Agent General of Reparations under the Experts' Plan in succession to the temporary Agent General, Owen D. Young." This was the gist of an announcement made by the Reparations Commission, which had for many days been awaiting Mr. Gilbert's acceptance of the appointment before making it public...
...this tall, slender man with brown hair and blue-gray eyes is to go to Europe, is to become Agent General of Reparations. His new job will be bigger than any he has yet had. Through his hands will go all the reparations that Germany is to pay. He will be virtually in command of Germany's finances and at the same time the principal link, so far as reparations are concerned, between the Allies and Germany. Upon his shoulders will rest a fair share of the responsibility of operating successfully the Experts' Plan, and, let it be not forgotten...
First steps toward operating the Experts' Plan were made when Tem porary Agent General of Reparations Owen D. Young burst into Berlin, hung up his coat and rolled up his sleeves. Said...
Appointments. Several appointments of interest were made. Owen D. Young, colleague of Gen. Charles A. Dawes on the First Committee of Experts, was nominated ad interim Agent General of Reparations. Explaining his inability to continue in that office for more than three months, he said: "Only by personal sacrifice can I accept the job, but my interest in the plan is so great and my belief in it so deep that I am willing to do anything I can to get it well started...