Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Capital and one of the historic thoroughfares of the world. It connects the Capitol Building with the White House. The appalling tragedy referred to occurred almost within the shadow of the Capitol. The newspaper stories are to the effect that there was a running battle between an agent of the National prohibition department and suspected bootleggers, in which pistol shots were freely exchanged, and that one going wild struck Hon. Frank Lester Greene, a United States Senator from the State of Vermont, in the head. He is still in the hospital, his life hanging in the balance. Our common...
Then in 1914 Fritz Haber, clever German necromancer, found that nitrogen gas can be captured in another way-by combining it with hydrogen to form ammonia. Instead of electricity, the Haber process makes use of an agent called a "catalyst," which is a substance that by its mere presence causes the union of two other elements. Efficient catalysts, or as Dr. E. E. Slosson calls them, the "good mixers" of chemical society, are expensive. Haber used uranium, platinum or some other rare and finely divided metal. When the nitrogen and hydrogen, after being elaborately purified, mixed in proper proportions, compressed...
Engagement denied. Russell Griswold Colt, onetime husband of Actress Ethel Barrymore, to Jessie Reed, Ziegfeld Follies member. Said he: "Kindly deny for me the press agent's story from Chicago that I am engaged to marry Miss Jessie Reed. Also kindly state that Miss Ethel Barrymore obtained a divorce from me on the ground of nonsupport, not cruelty...
Implying that Mr. McCann was nothing more than a Russell Emulsion press agent, the Journal of the A. M. A. said: "A careful reading of McCann's series [in The Evening Mail, Manhattan] indicates that they are essentially a rewrite of the advertising matter and supplementary literature on the Russell products,†interspersed with picturesque denunciations of the medical profession. The medical profession is thoroughly familiar with the lime starvation theory and treatment. It has been weighed in the balance of therapeutic and clinical tests and found wanting . . . Mr. McCann has done what other sensational writers have done before...
Articles were published some weeks ago in the Socialist newspaper of Paris, L'Humanite, showing the corrupt relations between many French journals and the Russian Government. The documents were drawn from the achives of the Russian Foreign Office. They consisted largely of reports made by the Russian Financial Agent in Paris. He had been constituted a sort of paymaster of the forces in connection with the French Press. The whole makes up a shocking story of bribery or blackmall resorted to at the time of the flotation of successive Russian loans on the French market...