Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth way of looking at things. Consequently he became the rarest type of reformer, coupling a taxi driver's view of human nature with his idealism. Muñoz Marin studied at Georgetown University, wrote for the Baltimore Sun, The Nation and Henry Louis Mencken's old Smart Set magazine, sold articles on Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters to South American papers. He married Muna Lee, distinguished poetess, speaker at Pan-American conferences, contributor to The New Yorker, onetime book reviewer for the New York Times...
...Made Harry Lloyd Hopkins executive secretary of the intra-Cabinet four-man Defense Ministry (TIME, March 10). Since Mr. Hopkins cannot work more than six or seven hours a day, a smart young New Dealer, handsome Oscar Cox, a Treasury assistant, was assigned to act as legal adviser to Hopkins. The move in effect put Hopkins in as the nearest Roosevelt approach to a Defense Tsar, such as Bernard Baruch was in World War I. But Mr. Roosevelt will continue to run things, with the team of Knudsenhillman assigned more & more to the physical workshop of defense...
...response to this increase in compulsory service and the recurrent agitation for a National Government, smart, aging Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe has been openly hinting at a revolt of Quebec M.P.s, active resistance from the French-Canadian third of the Dominion...
Four years ago the U. S. Government, on the grounds that Aluminum Co. of America is a monopoly, started an antitrust suit that has yet to be decided. Last year the Government took a more direct route to the same end. Its RFC loaned smart little Reynolds Metals Co. $15,800,000 to build its own aluminum ingot plant (in Alabama) to compete with Alcoa. Month ago RFC advanced another $4,200,000 to Reynolds, to help with a Bonneville plant. Last week Reynolds Metals put out its 1940 report, proof that Alcoa's competitor was growing fast...
...censor, preparing to descend to the pilot boat, looked for Reporter Frazer. He was missing. The ship was searched. Still no Frazer. The ship sailed. Safely at sea, Reporter Frazer appeared as a stowaway. He had figured that British naval authorities would laugh off his stunt as a smart newspaper scoop, play ball with him in order to cash in on the romantic publicity. Instead the Canadian Navy got sore at him, still sorer at the Boston Herald...