Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grazing, a white cattle-buyer appeared on the reservation. He sat around small fires with them at night, gossiped with the herdsmen in English, kept an ear tuned for mutterings in the native tongue which he gave no indication of understanding. Having heard all he wanted, last week Federal Agent J. A. Street doffed his disguise, went to one Golney Seymour, 21-year-old tribesman, accused him of the murder. Retaining the traditional calm of his fathers, Apache Seymour confessed that he had started out with Miss Schmerler to the dance, said that when he had offered her affection...
...displayed no signs of emotion.'' said Agent Street, ''not the slightest remorse, which of course, being an Indian, he wouldn't do. ... I talked with the boy's father and mother. They shrugged their shoulders. If they felt any emotion or any concern they certainly did not show it. ... A lot of Indians on that reservation knew who killed that girl, but of course they wouldn't tell...
Until 1928 Dr. Salomon, a bland, heavy-set German with an ingratiating smile, was not even an amateur photographer. Born in Berlin 63 years ago, he took degrees in law in both Berlin and Munich. He started life as a lawyer, became a banker, then found himself press agent for a German publishing house. While working at this job he heard of a new German camera small enough to carry easily in the hand, sensitive enough to take pictures without special illumination...
...Stanford men have set out to develop some agent to immunize against infantile paralysis, or to test for its presence in the body...
...Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed into new clothes, given a new name ("Buddy" for democracy, "Windsor" for aristocracy), and a long, lucrative contract. A kind-hearted press-agent (Jeanne Greene) gets him through his first personal appearance, but his picture is a flop. After a great deal of to-do casting sinister reflections upon the ways of cinemagnates & their henchmen Peter Hinkle goes back to his study of oral surgery and the Paragon people find two new stars...