Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into the group of quick, journalistically written thumbnail biographies which Warners have made their specialty for the last two years. Smart dialog by Manuel Seff and Niven Busch help make it adult entertainment...
...latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students to quit politics, President Grau granted complete autonomy (including freedom of expression) to the University of Havana, plus an annual grant of at least 2% of Cuba's revenues. ¶ A cloud on Cuba's horizon remained the Negro...
...laboratory, killing one assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., director of 23 corporations, treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, longtime president of the Boys' Club of New York, husband of smart, vivacious Repealist Pauline Morton Sabin; of cerebral hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated...
...smart for once." cried Jesse Jones to U. S. bankers when they convened in Chicago last September, advising them to sell preferred stock to the R. F. C. and earn a ''double blue eagle." Ever since then the R. F. C. has been trying in vain to persuade some big bank to issue preferred stock. Last week James Reader Leavell, successor to the Brothers George and Arthur Reynolds as head of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., decided to accept Mr. Jones's offer to have his bank sell $50,000,000 worth...
...permission was superfluous; the spur would be a private road, not a common carrier. Last year construction crews were sent into the wild hills near Smiths Ferry. Into the courts marched the lawyers for orders preventing the contractors from throwing the Montour across county highways. The smart contractors threw their crossings on Sundays when legal papers could not be served. Pennsy tried to stop dredging for a barge terminal on the grounds that it endangered the piers of a Pennsy bridge. And for good measure Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson sought a Federal injunction against the entire project. Pittsburgh Coal merely sent...