Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving at that time the largest vote ever given for this office in his State") and later elected to the U. S. Senate...
...which he had just been appointed by President Hoover. The first day in office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made on the Customs Bureau's chief problem-smuggled liquor from Canada to Detroit where the Treasury now has stationed some 400 U. S. agents, mostly Customs officers. That the flow was being dammed was evident from the fact that in June, 112,878 gallons of liquor officially cleared from Windsor, Ont. for the U. S., as against 470,055 gallons for the same month last year. Commissioner Eble determined to reduce the flow even more...
Sued for Annulment. Thomas M. Gorman, 27, Long Island real estate agent, husband of Mrs. Natalie Guggenheim Gorman, 18; by Edmond A. Guggenheim (her father), copper tycoon, who separated the couple after they married secretly (TIME, April...
...when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along with the procession, a policeman forced him to the curb. Ever since 1900 when, as Fierce-Arrow sales-agent he wore out his first Fierce-Arrow demonstrating it, he has been "good copy" in automotive news...
Willys-Overland Co. represented a 1908 reorganization of the old Overland Co., a panic-victim of 1907. Mr. Willys, who was then Overland's sales-agent in Elmira, snatched the company out of a receivership, putting up $350 to help meet a payroll. He reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss...