Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference was Premier Herriot of France. With a vigilent Poincare and an eagle-eyed Briand watching his every step from Paris, ready to pounce upon him should he make one move that could be construed as weakening the position of France, the Premier was not exactly a free agent. Moreover the French press raved against the U. S., declared that the bankers had exceeded their right in barring sanctions, counselled Premier Herriot to return home and leave the Conference to itself. He, perforce, remained hostile to any attempt at depriving the Reparations Commission of its power...
...invite, at the Premiers' Conference, the U. S. to name an official member of the Reparations Commission, whose chief duty will be to decide on German default under the Experts' Plan. Failing this, it was decided to invite an American to act as supervisory agent of reparations, and the name of Owen D. Young was put forward...
Last week, however, several leading editors were apparently outwitted by a press agent. A man, who signed himself "John Cromartie," wrote to the Director of the Bronx Zoo,'New York City, and suggested that the Zoo was incomplete without a specimen of the human race, and offered himself for exhibit in the monkey house. The New York Times printed this information and reported what the Zoo-Director said he had replied to the offer...
...Gardens, London, with this card on it: 'Homo Sapiens, MAN. This specimen, born in Scotland, was presented to the Society by John Cromartie, Esq. Visitors are requested not to irritate the man by personal remarks.' Oh, well, even Mr. Brisbane can't read everything. The press agent, if such he was, had succeeded in outwitting the combined intelligences of two Zoo-Directors, the City Editor of The New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, an editorial-writer on the New York Herald-Tribune, and doubtless several others...
...Dramatists' Theatre, in furtherance of its aim to be the advance-agent of Decency, has announced that there will be no advance for its current attraction, The Goose Hangs High. And Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., to keep faith with the Convention, stated that the opening-night seats for the new Follies will go no higher than $5.50. He has appointed a majordomo to scrutinize each applicant with the eye of suspicion and daunt the "gyps...