Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Planner Anderson. Most constructive was Commissioner Anderson, big. blond bachelor, able Richmond lawyer, smart Republican politician, long-time Dry. Last summer Mr. Anderson went to Europe, studied first-hand the Bratt system of liquor-control in Sweden, gathered other material on which to devise a liquor-selling system for the U. S. The ''Anderson Plan" was a highlight of the separate opinions which won the endorsement of five other Commissioners...
Steuer v. Kresel. While Judge Corrigan was still smarting at being made the squire of 48 wayward dames, Tammany got in its first successful dig at the Seabury investigation. The digger was astute Lawyer Max D. Steuer, good Tammany man, father of a municipal judge. As a special investigator of the notorious Bank of United States failure, Mr. Steuer saw to it that the name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel...
Died. Lieut. Col. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin, 59, senior member of McAlpin. Kauffman, Merle-Smith & Smart (Manhattan lawyers), onetime (1908-11) inspector general of the New York National Guard, son of General Edwin Augustus McAlpin who helped found Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel, director of Greeley Square Hotel Co. (which operates the hotel), and of Women's Hotel Co.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan...
Cold snap and cold brains leave the Vagabond with nothing to do but place feet on the andirons and consider the pretzel divinities of yesterday: the old beery Gods of Examinations that were so glorious until Mencken and the literary smart set made sauerkraut out of them. In that mind's eye of his that has enfolded so much nebulosity, the Vagabond at rest watches with the sad sublimity of a Greek stoic the passing of Harvard into tabloid education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through...
Most famed bar (not smart): Sloppy Joe's. Naughtiest night club: La Verbena. Smartest shops: El Encanto and Casa Grande...