Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would be given a speech to write. When he had sweated his brains out over it, two or three...
With Roosevelt spiking Willkie's war-mongering charges in his campaign addresses, the Willkie trend should collapse, he stated. "Roosevelt will not lead us into war; he is too smart a politician...
Your recent articles in re Wendell Willkie have been completely "unfunny" to the reader and others to whom I have talked. I know that what I say makes small difference to you, but your "sophisticated-smart" reports on Willkie have been "hitting below the belt." You seem to believe that amateurs in politics whose voices "croak" and "scratch" are objects to be ridiculed. Your smears, very subtly put, on Willkie's every action fall flat; and your reports concerning lack of enthusiasm and cynicism at his Chicago appearance are not true...
...Deborah Delano, 93, who bolted the Republican Party to vote for her third cousin Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, bolted back last week, declaring: "Even if he is as smart as they say, no man is smart enough to run for three terms...
Immediately the investigator blew up three fallacies: 1) that smart children tend to be frail; 2) that girls are smarter than boys; 3) that smart children are "onesided." Medical and anthropometric tests showed that Terman's group was healthier, and, in general, physiologically superior to the average. In the grade-school section the ratio of bright boys to bright girls was 6-to-5, in the high-school section 2-to-1. As a group the bright kids showed versatility in information and school activity...