Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible, and that the Allies were not bent on crushing Germany permanently both economically and politically. The Dawes Plan also recognized the difficulty of making the transfer of such vast payments across the German frontier. The transfer was no longer a duty of the German Government but of the Agent General for Reparations at Berlin. If he found it impossible to transfer Reparation payments from Berlin to Paris, London, and the other Allied capitals, the "transfer clause" of the Dawes Plan provided for a temporary cessation of payments, and so "protected" Germany's foreign exchange...
...guard the Black Duck, transferred to Providence, was assigned Edward Foley, 64, trusted customs agent. Securing liquor elsewhere, he became staggering drunk on duty, flourished two revolvers at a curious crowd, fell to the ground breaking a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, rushed to a telephone to call "reinforcements" from Boston, ended his rampage in a sodden stupor...