Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens and their goods are concerned. U. S. consular officials in Germany inclined to believe last week that the revolving fund will be used not so much to dump in the U. S. as in countries with which the Fatherland has clearing agreements. According to the plausible secretariat of smart Dr. Schacht, nothing is farther from his high mind than dumping. He merely hopes to equalize the difference between the value of the German mark, which is relatively high because the mark has not been devalued, and the value of other currencies like the yen, pound and dollar, which have...
...politics at a period when any mention of Adolf Hitler would cause President von Hindenburg to snort: "I wouldn't appoint that Austrian poltroon so much as a postman!" Undismayed, Major von Ribbentrop kept dropping hints among Der Feldmarschall's military entourage that it might be the smart thing to make some sort of deal with Hitler. Finally in January 1933, at the home of Cologne Banker Franz von Schroeder, von Ribbentrop engineered the first meeting of Political Upstart Adolf Hitler and weak, perpetually scheming Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, who had the ear of Hindenburg. Through...
...Many a Canadian has been impressed by Franklin Roosevelt's preachment of "the more abundant life." Last week one of the most impressed Canadians, slight, smart, sandy-haired Robert Cromie, editor-publisher of the Vancouver Sun, attended a Roosevelt press conference. "What would you say was the social objective of the Administration?" asked Newshawk Cromie. Obligingly, the President replied to his friend from over the border, waiving the White House rule against direct quotation...
...contest-"a change to a European form of government." Apparently the man who called Prohibition a "noble experiment" (literally "an experiment noble in motive") and who harped for four years on "rugged individualism" was already itching to get into a momentous fight, the form of which even Franklin Roosevelt, smart politician though he was. did not yet clearly perceive. It remained for Pundit Walter Lippmann. once a good friend of Herbert Hoover, to take most of the wind out of that Republican's sails with these caustic words...
Last week for the 17th "Muny" opening there were 10,000 ardent spectators, a new producer, a new operetta and a new lighting system. The new producer was Broadway's smart Laurence Schwab (Good News, New Moon), successor to J. J. Shubert who has taken the "Muny" idea to Navin Field, Detroit. The new operetta was Teresina, a confection by Vienna's old Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier). At a cost of $25,000 two giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights...