Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taschereau's predecessor as Premier. Since then Conservative Maurice Duplessis, Opposition leader, has pried into the Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting he began reading into the record the august name of Taschereau...
...Majesty's Government to rearm Great Britain as speedily as possible. Since the British Navy is still the favorite arm of the King's subjects, and since present British Naval battle planes are notably behind the times, it was both conferring a great honor and making a smart move last week to bring "Flying Sam" Hoare back to full Cabinet rank as First Lord of the British Admiralty-i. e. Secretary for the Navy...
...Lenin. In Russia last week it was like the exploding of a bombshell when Prosecutor Philipov strongly intimated that under the new Bolshevik legal structure there will be "Prohibition of Abortion." Higher in the Communist hierarchy than Moscow Prosecutor .Philipov is the Public Prosecutor for the whole Soviet Union, smart Comrade Andrei Januari Yishinsky, who recently obtained a sentence condemning to death the brutal Governor of Wrangel Island (TIME, June 1). Last week the Chief Prosecutor declared in Moscow that the new Constitution will seek to correct "the basic defect of the criminal code...
Oldest of the East's five famed women's colleges, Mount Holyoke sits comfortably on its ancient campus in small South Hadley, Mass, for the purpose of making 1,000 smart girls from 37 states smarter. Over this establishment for 36 years has presided massive, distinguished Mary Emma Woolley, longtime Friend of Peace. Last year President Woolley, now 73, sent her trustees searching for a successor. That they had been hard pressed to fill "May" Woolley's ample chair was evident last week when, announcing a "clean break with tradition," they chose as Mount Holyoke...
...national boom, when interest rates are generally high, bond prices low. Investment bankers are thinking about that type of investor already. Fortnight ago in Manhattan, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s Hugh Knowlton wound up a speech to the Financial Advertisers with a highly logical argument for future use. This smart, sharp-nosed young banker, who was trained in the law and got into finance by way of Paul Warburg's International Acceptance Bank, declared...