Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody knows that pickaninnies can be smart as paint, but many a white doubts the innate intelligence of Negroes. A Northwestern University professor, Paul Witty, assisted by Dr. Martin Jenkins, picked out the brighter children among 8,400 Negroes in the third to eighth grades of seven Chicago public schools, gave them intelligence tests. Their findings, announced last week...
...Only subject at which the Negroes were not so smart as white children was arithmetic...
...Wheeling "stogie" once achieved literary standing. When Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous he required something sufficiently powerful to make a worldlywise, traveled, smart-alec, young son of a rich American father so ghastly nauseated that he would fall overboard from an ocean liner in order, for purposes of the plot, to be rescued by a fishing smack. A Wheeling "stogie" did the trick-not an overdose of ice cream sodas, as in the movie version. The lad was no sissie...
Died. Samuel Untermyer, 81, smart Manhattan attorney, orchid fancier and politico; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. Lawyer Untermyer made $75,000 in his 21st year, was a millionaire before he was 40, made his fame as counsel for the Pujo Committee in the Congressional investigation of the "Money Trust." Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller...
...years of study. It was assembled and mentally digested by Republican SECommissioner Robert E. Healy-onetime muckraker for the Federal Trade Commission-with the aid of 45 research workers, lawyers and statisticians. The bill which embodies their conclusions was drafted by SEC Attorney David Schenker, a 40-year-old, smart, cigar-masticating, witness-softening lawyer...