Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the world's spare Jews is to transplant them to virgin soil in the Soviet Republic of Biro-Bidjan, insulating the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. In the event of Russo-Japanese hostilities Biro-Bidjan will be "the Jewish Belgium," and smart Bolsheviks count on world publicity for "Japanese Atrocities" in Biro-Bidjan...
Greyhound crashed into trouble when Depression struck. Its superb operation under President Wickman continued to make profits but not enough to carry its dividend commitments. These might well have ditched Greyhound for good but for the timely arrival of smart Atlas Corp., which in 1933 took over Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and with it Greyhound. Atlas left President Wickman in the saddle but cut off the huge dividend arrears by a redivision of stock. With six railroads owning a share in them, Greyhound Lines last week had 1,726 busses which traveled 137,998,394 miles in 1935, an increase...
...Love Before Breakfast" years to be too, too smart. It is one of these pictures that tries conscientiously to be conscience-free. Whenever the sophistication peters out in English, the actors become blase in the approved Parisian style. For example, when Preston Foster invites Carole Lombard into his private office, she says, "Mousieur" and one sees instantly what a cosmopolitan she is. It's too bad the way Hollywood is forced to grind out pictures in such a furious frenzy. Clearly there is no time to write the small talk in advance, and the poor scared actors and actresses have...
Speaking for Standard's management, John Foster Dulles, famed international lawyer, suavely acknowledged Truster Groves's "remarkable achievement" but doubted whether he or anyone else was "smart enough to make $2,000,000 into $9,000,000 as a regular proposition." Said Lawyer Dulles: "It can't be done without, in the first place, having a substantial amount of high speculation, coupled with a very considerable amount of luck. Anybody who thinks that that thing can be done, and done regularly, is a man, I say, who is playing for a fall." The stockholders apparently agreed, giving...
...were smart, though, not to give those guys from Harvard a chance to say much. Why, they would have been talking their theories right there in the State Capitol, right under the American flag. And besides when they once get started you know yourself they can convince you of just about anything. The might even have made you think the oath bill wasn...