Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Manhattan, Mr. Hoving rented a 15-room Park Avenue apartment for himself and Mrs. Hoving, the former Mary Osgood Field, became vice president of Associated and chairman of its smart Fifth Avenue store. Lord & Taylor. Last week Mr. Knauth announced that "owing to increased duties devolving around the central office," Chairman Hoving of Lord & Taylor would become president as well, succeeding Joseph E. Pridday, who will be an associated vice president...
...along with his predecessor, Chester E. Rahr, were five executives including 70-year-old Chairman George Marion Brown, who had been the mainspring of Certainteed ever since its beginning as a small tar-paper plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired was a big com pany with a poor record. Certainteed has had losses every year from 1928 to 1935, when...
...intensive study." The faculty voted 24-to-3 to continue it. The students, who study for nine-week periods such subjects as chemistry, economics, or biology and then abandon them for the year, were even more enthusiastic, 88% for, 4% against, 6% undecided. Dull students as well as smart ones liked intensive study. Hiram thought that "a possible trend toward a more introverted type of student was indicated." One student observed: "If you put in four-fifths of your time on economics for nine weeks, you're bound to learn something about it. Of course...
David Meriwether Milton, smart husband of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s daughter Abby, has been a very busy man the past fortnight. First he journeyed from Manhattan to Chicago to face sharp questioning by Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's investigating committee, which originally started out to investigate real estate bondholders' reorganizations. From Mr. Milton the committee wanted to know all about the acquisition of General American Life Insurance Co. by Southwestern Life Insurance Co. last spring (TIME, April...
...Three Smart Girls (Universal). Under Carl Laemmle Sr., Universal Pictures Corp. made a specialty of horror pictures. Last spring when benign old "Uncle Carl," who had generously padded his staff with relatives, sold the company he had founded, Banker John Cheever Cowdin and his associates, who bought it, promised profound changes. As an example of what to expect from an alert group of hard-boiled banker-showmen, Three Smart Girls should interest exhibitors. Universal's most ballyhooed 1936 release is the daintiest, quaintest, most hygienic little musicomedy of the season, written, directed and performed with such evident sincerity that...