Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smart, like other young New Dealers, but a far better politician than most, he had already proved himself useful in securing support for the Works Relief Bill. Last week the President called him to the White House to consult with Speaker Byrns on getting the Security Bill passed. If the Speaker could not lead the House, the President was willing to send a leader from the White House. Thoroughly bucked up, Speaker Byrns shortly spoke up to say that the Security Bill would pass...
...last week. It began immediately after Banker Meyer bought the decadent Post at auction from the McLean estate two years ago. Until then the Post had carried, exclusively in Washington, the comic strips of Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy. While the Post was in receivership, smart Editor Patterson deftly slipped in, snapped up the comic strip contracts for her Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that the old contracts (with Chicago Tribune Syndicate) belonged to him alone (TIME, July 24, 1933). For the next 20 months, while lawyers wrangled, injunctions were issued and dismissed...
...losses by fraudulent security sales, chiefly to his own family holding companies (TIME, March 4 & 11). On the first day the old Pittsburgh financier was his usual painfully shy self. But on the second day he perked up, grew garrulous, cracked mild jokes. Coached by his famed chief counsel, smart little Frank J. Hogan of Washington, he seemed actually to enjoy reminiscing publicly over his rise to power, sketching a portrait of himself as patriot, father, man of affairs...
...Secretary of the Treasury Mellon had his Commissioner of Internal Revenue David H. Blair prepare a two-page memorandum listing nine smart ways to reduce income tax payments...
...tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor of Abyssinia received guests while fondling three cocker spaniels given him in happier times by Italy's Little King, announced that this week Abyssinia will arraign Italy before he League Council...