Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers are smart they will not fight radio but accept the inexorable law of survival of the fittest and find ways of proving their output - a popular defensive business move of which newspaper publishers are innocent...
When Theodore Roosevelt rough-rode up San Juan Hill, Frank Richardson Kent was starting as a political reporter on the Baltimore Sim. Today this small, smart newshawk is one of the country's most famed commentators on political Washington. No key-hole gossip, he makes Democrats and Republicans alike quake with his breezy invective and the tart sagacity he packs into his daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is quoted from ocean to ocean. Yet until lately Frank Kent could be read in full nowhere except in the Baltimore...
...Reichsführer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Göring because eventually Hitler will...
...Earl Dean, chaplain of the State Grange, in Rochester. Excerpt: "Jesus taught that human life is holy. Since milk means life to the human race, milk is also holy. Yes, I know how it smells and sticks, and how your shoes look around a dairy barn. I know the smart of a cow's tail swished in your eye on a hot summer night, and the sound of greedy hogs in a trough of sour milk. . . . I know the unholy feel of the business at the bottom. Still, we must insist that anything as essential to human life...
Though Administration speakers led by R. F. Chairman Jesse Jones, who just a year ago was exhorting the same bankers to "be smart for once," bubbled with peace & goodwill, the rumor spread that the President was disappointed with the unregenerate delegates, that he had decided to confine his speech to a breezy greeting. What happened after that is still a state secret. But a few hours before the bankers convened in Constitution Hall two men suddenly took pencil and paper and began to write. One was Franklin D. Roosevelt. The other was Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of Manhattan...