Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrifty Frenchmen, famed for keeping their personal budgets meticulously balanced, have lately been angered, then amused by the French Treasury's "budget fantasies." Just how fantastic French finance has become was pictured in Paris' smart illustrated weekly Vu, copies of which reached the U. S. last week. Successively, as Vu points out, the French deficit for 1933 was estimated in November 1932 by Minister of the Budget Maurice Palmade at 12,100,000,000 francs; on Dec. 26 by Chairman of the Chamber's Finance Committee Lucien Lamoureux...
...Midwest; if not, the ablest is probably Dr. Walter E. ("Doc") Meanwell of Wisconsin, a stocky, irascible theorist who never played basketball. He now directs practice from a tall perambulator which assistant managers push around the floor. His teams, more than usually adept at blocking and feint dribbling, play smart defensive basketball with one guard always well behind the middle of the floor to break up quick, unexpected advances...
...original sponsors of Domestic Allotment as "the most intelligent scheme yet brought forward to furnish agriculture with a program for an orderly retreat." He loudly advocates currency inflation to relieve farm debt. Said he last month: "England has played us for a bunch of suckers. The smart thing to do would be to go off the gold standard a little further than England has. The British debtor has paid off his debts 50% easier than the U. S. debtor...
...would listen to with the tears running down his plump cheeks. There is reason to believe that Carload Ritchie died on the threshold of a vaster career. Born in the hamlet of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, he used to hang around the local hotel as a schoolboy, eagerly watching the smart traveling salesmen. When he became a salesman himself, it was as a commission agent for more & more old British grocery and drug houses. In 1928 he startled the conservative Britishers in control of Eno's Fruit Salt, whose U. S. and Canadian agent he had been for many years...
...came trooping in. By 1929 a total investment of about $850,000 had been shrewdly rolled up to $6,000,000. Just before the stockmarket crash they sold additional stock to the public. But unlike almost every other investment trust they kept this new capital in cash. In time smart President Odium, now only 40. was able to begin buying up other investment trusts which no one wanted, when their stocks were selling far below liquidating value. In all he gobbled...