Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billie Dove is a svelte literary agent. She becomes attracted to a dull young man named Dudley Crome (Charles Starrett) because she likes his refreshing ingenuousness, his simple tastes. These simple tastes are what complicate their married life. Crome wants her to stay at home and have a family. She wants to work. Presently they divorce. Crome marries a girl who sees things his way. She has already had a baby when the picture ends but despite this bond, usually infrangible in the cinema, Crome has returned to his first wife, is preparing to remarry her. Cinemactress Dove wears becoming...
Natives of outlying points have learned the flying schedules of planes from Fairbanks and regularly file orders of their needs by Government wireless in advance. A message recently received by Alaska Airways from its agent in Wiseman...
...Pennsylvania Railroad's desire for Nickel Plate trackage rights along Lake Erie (TIME, Oct. 12). Son of two Irish immigrants, with no schooling after the grammar grades, President Crowley followed the storybook route to success. His first job was in 1878 as messenger boy for the Erie. Telegrapher, station agent, train-despatcher all before 20, he rose to vice president of Central in 1916. Since 1924 he has been president. During the War he was Federal manager of the Central lines along with other eastern roads. At that time he demanded that one engine should pull 80 cars of freight...
...university. The president, the deans of the College, of Sheffield, and of the freshmen, a representative of the treasurer's office, of the department of university health, and of the faculty, are to occupy the eight remaining seats. The business manager is to be the salaried business agent of the remodeled association, and not as formerly a voting member of the board...
...experiments. One day a scout for the du Pont Co. heard him, immediately enlisted his aid. Du Pont was seeking a means of producing synthetic rubber, thought Father Nieuwiand might be on the right track. Two years later Father Nieuwland's divinylacetylene was treated with a vulcanizing agent and there was produced a material somewhat resembling rubber. It bounced...