Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies were putting up barbed wire, importing carloads .of cots for workers to sleep in their plants, hiring guards, laying in supplies of tear gas and rifles. On the side of peace and Mr. Green were Michael Francis Tighe, 72-year-old president of the Amalgamated, and one fact: smart Amalgamated members were far from confident of winning a strike. At most they claimed only 100,000 members out of 430,000 steel employes. Not famed for energy or decisiveness, President Green went before the 188 Amalgamated delegates in the Elks' Auditorium and outdid himself. Said he: "I come...
Seldom does smart Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff go home to Moscow empty handed. In Geneva last week, while no one else was getting anything substantial at the Dis armament Conference (see col. 3), he put screws on King Alexander of Jugoslavia to recognize the Soviet Union. Roly-poly Comrade Litvinoff had just obtained in Geneva recognition from the other two countries of the Little Entente, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. Since King Carol was at last able to stomach Bolsheviks, why should not his brother-in-law King Alexander...
...Jackson Barnett and his wife went to Washington. His wife's lawyer was a smart young Kansan named Harold McGugin. The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, obligingly agreed to let Jackson Barnett give half a million dollars in Liberty Bonds to the Baptist Home Mission Society and another half million to Mrs. Barnett. Of the latter sum $135,000 was alleged to have gone to Lawyer McGugin...
Harold McGugin in the meantime was too smart to remain unknown. In 1926 he was elected to the Kansas Legislature. He promptly proposed a law forbidding Kansans to eat mince pie. It was foolish but it made Kansans see the folly of their law against cigarets. Legislator McGugin made his political name by getting Kansas' anti-cigaret law repealed...
...Moran, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl's neanderthal assistants) break eggs on one another's heads, sing, insult one another, bid for a pair of the explorer's lions, watch a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Produced from a script by Arthur Kober and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's smart Publicity Chief Howard Dietz, who has written Manhattan musical shows for the past five years, Hollywood Party should have been one of the funniest pictures of the season. That most of its antics turn out to be curiously dreary may be due to the fact that cinemusicomedy demands more continuity...