Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week except in words (see p. 18). The blatant announcement last fortnight that Haile Selassie had conceded subsoil rights in half his empire to British Promoter Francis Rickett and his mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by statesmen and financiers last week a "nigger trick." Anything but smart was this dusky African potentate's pathetic belief that President Roosevelt would defend Ethiopia against Italy as a result of the midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross misjudgment." This petulant error Chargé d'Affaires Engert erased...
...Roman embroidery, boy's suit made from cast-off garments, rompers, Afghan, artificial flowers, pieced quilt, hand-painted cake plates (professional and amateur), fruit group, picnic table. Money winnings were small (first prize: $2), but eminently satisfying to the victor was the distinction of being known as a right smart housewife back home...
...most of his money and his wife, who divorced him. Director Korda whisked back to Berlin, then Paris; found a job at Paramount's Joinville studio. Two years later, he summoned his old friend Author Lajos Biro to help him promote a few thousand francs. With a smart young film salesman named Stephen Pallos and Brother Vincent Korda they formed the enterprise that presently developed into London Film Productions...
...saving some $30,000,000 annually in fixed charges and enabling the corporation to ride out Depression without seriously depleting its treasury. Second was a vast program of plant improvement still in progress. Third was to pension off an army of aging executives, re-peopling Steel's offices with smart young men, of whom the most notable was Edward Riley Stettinius, son of the late Morgan partner. Now only 34 and vice chairman of the omnipotent finance committee, Steelman Stettinius was supposed to have been hand-picked as a likely future head for U. S. Steel...
...products ever received more spontaneous publicity. The first Austins were in constant danger of being upset by crowds. Smart businessmen sent them cruising the streets to advertise their wares. Funnysheets pictured them slipping under trucks, causing tall men to trip. For a while this publicity had all the advantages of the Ford joke, and orders ran three months ahead of production. But when pranksters took to driving them into ballrooms and down fire escapes, the U. S. public decided that "Baby Austins" were silly, would not be seen in them...