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Word: agents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henderson then was on his way out of crumbling NRA, which he had served as director of Research and Planning, chief economist, member of its short-lived National Industrial Recovery Board. He subsequently fell so low that in 1936 he had to ask Democratic Press-agent Charlie Michelson for a $50-a-week job with the Democratic National Campaign Committee in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Up Again Henderson | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Sarles Durstine had already been a newspaperman, publicity man for the Bull Moose campaign and an advertising agent when he helped direct a campaign that raised $150,000,000 to aid U. S. soldiers. His helpers in that Wartime drive were a Buffalo charity man named Alex F. Osborn and Bruce Barton, who had once written advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: D out of B.B.D.&O. | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...rats are gnawing at the cellar of University Hall. The nerve of the tutoring agent who brazenly tried to bribe a Dean's secretary is hard to beat. But he rightly guessed that the University would not take strong steps against him, and it is labor-saving to fix the boss of course attendance instead of all her assistants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPEN BRIBERY | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...University official was offered a $25 bribe by an agent of tutoring school for class lists, it was revealed yesterday by Mrs. Peters, Secretary in the Records office in charge of class attendance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring School Agent Offered $25 to Official of University for Class Listings | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

Lampy President, Edward C. K. Read, was stopped short by the agent when he attempted to remove the one typewriter, which works, and to burn off the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G-MEN SEARCH LAMPY FOR EXTORTION CLUES | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

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