Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal struggle boiled. Curran had the support of Vice President Jack Lawrenson and soft-spoken Treasurer Hedley Stone. Curran's enemies are led by three smart Communist-line operators: Vice President Joe Stack; Jamaican Negro Secretary Ferdinand Smith; weary-looking Vice President Howard McKenzie. Stack, Smith and McKenzie have one objective: to toss Curran out and realign N.M.U. solidly with Bridges and the Party. Curran, who once thought he could run the Reds-and sometimes even run with them-knows that this time he will be lucky if he survives them...
...French diplomat who has watched Byrnes for a year made a point: "Never in our hearing did he utter a word of criticism of either his President or of Wallace. That showed me he was a loyal man-but also, which is perhaps better-that he was a damn smart politician. Politician is a word which has got a bad connotation in many parts of the world. But there is so much ignorance, misunderstanding and even stupidity in the way international affairs are handled that I sometimes think what the world needs is more smart politicians-especially if they...
...absent newsmen and politicos had gathered elsewhere, in Room 331 of the Morrison Hotel. There smart, ulcer-ridden little Jake Arvey, the new boss of the old Kelly machine, was introducing the Democrats' candidate to succeed Ed Kelly as mayor: a husky businessman, Martin Kennelly...
Walk along Madrid's Gran Via in the early evening-the hour of the Paseo. Smart women in furs and well-dressed men jostle along the avenue, huddling in their mufflers against the chill wind from the Guadarramas. Street lights gleam on neatly cleaned streets, on the chaste, well-stocked windows of expensive stores. The roadway is crowded with French, German, Italian, British and American automobiles and with rickety taxis that are always full...
...From the august chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court last June came a tiny cloud to hover in the economic skies. Few but smart union lawyers noticed it. This week the cloud hung dark and squally over much of U.S. industry, as C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers marched into Pittsburgh's Federal Court, demanded from Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. & the National Tube Co. a whopping $120 million. Last week in Cleveland, the same union sued Republic Steel for $56 million, American Steel & Wire Co. for $38 million. The United Automobile Workers demanded $12 million from Ohio Crankshaft...