Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Graduate of Rutgers, efficient Seymour Parker Gilbert, "The Bright Young Man of U. S. Finance," has been Agent General of Reparations since...
...difficult to imagine a banking system more cruel and more in efficient than that prevailing in the U. S. at the beginning of the twentieth Century. . . ." The cruelties were imposed by the eccentricities and individualism of the private bankers, by the lack of a central controlling or guardian agent. But "the idea of a central banking system [was] anathema to all. The compromise between the anathema and the need was the Federal Reserve Board of which Senator Carter Glass, opponent of a central bank, once resignedly remarked, "'Oh, hell, it is a central bank.'" The Redistricting Intermezzo...
...Hoover, struggles manfully against lack of funds. Cornell crews no longer win at Poughkeepsie. Cornell football teams, miscoached by "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, have lost frequently to weak opponents; have played light schedules and been unsuccessful. The name of Cornell appears infrequently in metropolitan papers. Reasons: Cornell employed no press agent until two years ago; then hired not a professional but an inexperienced, inefficient Cornell graduate...
...recent study made by the department of D. W. Bailey '21, University Publication Agent, a list of the ten oldest living graduates was compiled, a list drawn from material in this year's Quinquennial Catalog, which has been put on sale this week...
Author Maugham has written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...