Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macy & Co., big Manhattan department store with the slogan "It's Smart To Be Thrifty," has plugged sable wraps at $22,000. Regularly advertised are Capehart radios...
...state instead of Federal statutes. At the next Dry Goods convention in January the general membership will be asked to approve a program calling for support in state legislatures of model laws covering wages, hours, child labor, deceptive advertising, misleading labeling and price cutting. All this looked like a smart attempt to head off Federal legislation in the next Congress. Ground for this suspicion was broadened last week when the Dry Goods Association belatedly announced that it had quit the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...Double Breasted Coat is a close second, however, and in the new stripes and worsted sharkskin patterns makes an exceedingly smart town suit. Vents--are longer and only in the center now. And while it is absolutely impossible to draw a line for all men, we still will guarantee that the prohibition of tan spats with formal wear will still continue...
...summer of 1935, seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most...
...settlement by the owners of 99% of the shares affected. Among the holdouts was a Wall Streeter named Joseph Keller, who figured that if back dividends were to be paid at all he was entitled to hard cash, $21.25 on each of his 500 Class A shares. Hiring a smart Manhattan lawyer named Abraham L. Pomerantz, he filed suit in Delaware, where Wilson & Co. was incorporated, seeking full cash payment of back dividends for all holdout stock...