Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. The chief Democrats' truce offer was smart politics but it was also, conceivably, motivated by sincere concern for the condition of the country. Perhaps by coincidence or perhaps because the public felt reassured, prices on the New York Stock Exchange rose steadily for five consecutive days. As Republicans and Democrats both knew, the prime movers for any legislative gain that may be effected in the December- March session of Congress will be the insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind...
...Government's money, it is customary for the President to announce that there is not very much money on hand, that the Budget will show a greatly reduced surplus, perhaps even a deficit. Then, after all the appropriation bills are passed and Congress has adjourned in March, a smart Secretary of the Treasury discovers that the books will balance after all, that the Administration has been economical and wise...
...Marin returned to the U. S., realized that there he could do his best work. Stieglitz gave him his first exhibition in 1910, has stood sponsor for his artistic career, guardian of his finances ever since. About five years ago the chorus of critical praise began humming. It became smart to own a Marin, expensive to buy one. Pictures that were little more than large sheets of rough paper with a few expertly placed blobs of color, brought $1,000, $2,000 and eventually...
...Woods chose Joseph Rogers to be president of the company. Mr. Rogers is a smart executive, has done much for Addressograph. He is 50, was born in Toronto. He started in business as bicycle salesman, then sold National Cash Registers. In 1913 he became general manager of International Time Recording Co., later vice president of International Business Machines Corp. He lives in Chicago, has two daughters. He has a country home in the Adirondacks, a cruiser on Lake-of-the-Woods...
Business Bid. As a piece of smart politics to allay the fears of Big Business, to bid for its favor, seven of Democracy's most potent leaders?James Middleton Cox, John William Davis and Alfred Emanuel Smith, the party's last three presidential nominees, together with Senate Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, House Leader Garner, National Chairman Raskob and Executive Chairman Shouse?signed a manifesto on the party's future course. They said they regarded their "remark- able victory" as an "opportunity for constructive service." The Republican tariff they flayed as the "apotheosis of bad economy" but added: "Whatever changes...