Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange cablegram for Superfine Watch Co. of Manhattan to send its associate at Biel, Switzerland. The official was going through Superfine Co.'s correspondence to find out why it alone could sell imported watches at extraordinary cut rates. To learn more about "Esther," he ordered a U. S. secret agent in Italy to go to Biel, there to investigate one Marie Salzmann, recipient of the cablegram...
...agent obeyed, found Mile Salzmann to be aged 21, pretty, romantic. The agent also was young. Under the Swiss moon he made love to his victim. Presently he knew that "Esther" meant "shipment"; "uncle'' meant "Customs officer." "Money" therefore meant a bribe. He had unearthed a smuggling plot which had permitted at least $1,000,000 in watches to enter the U. S. free of duty, defrauding the Government of $350,000 a year...
...agent pursued his conquest, went in for details. He heard further from trusting lips that because Manhattan Customs examiners searched only one in ten cases of goods on their piers, Mile Salzmann & friends would ship nine cases of watches, one case of earthenware or bronze pieces, consign the whole shipment as undutiable earthenware and bronze. For their plan to succeed and the dummy cases only to be searched, corruption of some of the Manhattan Customs examiners was obviously necessary...
...special committee of the House of Representatives began a thorough investigation of Soviet incitement of Communist activities in the U. S., particularly of the Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet fiscal agent...
...late Curator Wilhelm von Bede of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum used to call "the richest treasury of Renaissance masterpieces in private ownership," was well on its way to the U. S. last week. Its value: $6,000,000. Its sale price: undisclosed. Purchaser of the collection and agent for its ultimate distribution to U. S. tycoons was the one firm of art dealers capable of handling a transaction of that magnitude: Duveen Brothers of London, Paris & New York...