Word: agents
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...