Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denounced Agent Bonynge's charges of wholesale German arson and sabotage as "based on flimsy circumstantial evidence." He explained ingeniously what happened to Secret Agent von Rintelen and his $500,000 of alleged sabotage money...
...Burn, Bomb, Destroy!" Almost apologetically the U. S. Agent before the Mixed Claims Commission, grizzled Robert Williams Bonynge, Manhattan lawyer, Harding appointee, charged last week that in 1915-16, when the U. S. and Germany were still at peace, the Imperial Government sent over secret agents who committed sabotage throughout the U. S., hired Negroes to infect horses with anthrax germs in New York City, Newport News (Va.), and Baltimore, hired other Negroes to touch off such mighty munitions explosions as New Jersey's famed Black Tom blast...
Several days prior to the convention a convention press agent sent me a story demanding space rates for its publication. On two occasions I attended the convention seeking story material. On each occasion I was directed to an individual selling mimeographed reports of convention doings at 30? a copy. After attending quite a number of church conventions where every co-operation is given to the press, I decided that the colored brethren were not anxious for publicity and that I did not want to foster what seemed to be a petty publicity racket...
...Still unplaced is Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations who, his friends say, aspires to a big public rather than private financial...
...centre of the declining Spanish Empire in the New World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering in the stench of burning corpses last week took some comfort...