Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bonner's case was summed up by famed Frank J. Hogan who then had to dash to California to defend his oldtime client. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, in a Richfield receivership suit. Most work for Bonner was done by Lawyer Hogan's smart son-in-law John W. ("Duke") Guider...
Last week Potter Palmer Jr. bought it back for an estimated $1,500,000. He proposed to develop it as a smart hotel. A slight, shy, curly-headed man who dislikes society as much as his father did, Potter Palmer Jr. lives quietly in an Astor Street triplex apartment filled with Chinese art (he is president of Chicago's Art Institute). He and his beauteous wife, now summering at Bar Harbor, have four children and though Potter III has a daughter, there is as yet no Potter...
...child labor in the cotton textile industry was a smart and inexpensive concession. It deluged the employers with public approval, gave them a better leverage against Labor's extreme demands. Likewise they would be put to no great financial loss because, of the 600,000 U. S. textile workers, only about 15,000 are children, toiling mostly in the lint-laden air of Southern mills. But their child labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than...
...leaves for his Saranac camp where he intones German and Jewish folksongs to his guests for hours on end. Sultry summer evenings bring excellent open-air music to a dozen U. S. cities, whereby musicians are kept busy from one formal winter season to the next. In San Mateo, smart suburb of San Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised...
...sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...