Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointments to the Cabinet are in line with the overwhelming sentiment of the nation for national solidarity in a time of world crisis and in behalf of our national defense -and nothing else." Aside from the thoughts of Republicans and Democrats who viewed the appointments only as a smart device for affecting the political campaign, the President may well have viewed them as useful for less partisan purposes-useful perhaps to lend new hope to Britain, whose immediate collapse would place the U. S. in an even more dangerous position, useful possibly to lift the desperate efforts...
...That smart and slippery politician, King Carol II of Rumania, last week lost no time in coming to terms with continental Europe's new master. No sooner had France asked for peace than Carol, in a sweeping decree, made Rumania a totalitarian State. A single new Party of the Nation was established and the Nazi Iron Guard and anti-Semitic "National Generation of 1922" invited to join. The last imprisoned members of the Iron Guard were set free and an announcement said that "officials responsible for killing Iron Guardists in recent years" will be punished. This obviously...
Life in the Shadow. Under the pall of smoke that turned light clothes grey and made eyes smart, Paris life went on last week. The omnibusses and subways continued to run though less frequently, the radio stations broadcast only martial music interspersed with news bulletins and official communiques (as in Warsaw), people journeyed out to the suburbs to see the damage caused by Nazi bombers and to look at the wreckage of planes shot down. The cafes and the Bank of France remained open, and people stood in queues at local banks to withdraw their savings...
First to introduce streamliners to the South with the Rebels (New Orleans to Jackson, Tenn.), he went competitors one better by stocking his streamliners with smart, good-looking college girls - the U. S.'s first train hostesses. Scheduled to pay for themselves in seven and a half years, the sleek, Diesel-powered stream liners paid out in less than half that time. In 1936 President Tigrett formed Gulf Transport Co. to handle freight over a coordinated rail-highway system. To it he added a passenger service with tickets interchangeable between busses and trains. Says he: "We believe in hauling...
Cities Service, a $1,068,579,000 aggregation of both oil (60%) and utility (40%) properties, is now run by a smooth, smart powerhouse named W. Alton Jones, for many years Doherty's right-hand man. Served with SEC's integration order in March, its sub-holding company, Cities Service Power & Light, answered with a brief, claiming Section 11 unconstitutional, but came to SEC's hearings nevertheless. Last week, Cities Service men heard an SEC lawyer named Frank Field sound off on what integration means to him. His view: concentrating either on its Colorado or its Ohio...