Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...griping because so many veterans have chosen to remain members of the 52-20 Club. It looks as if these boys, who decided to draw $20 a week for a full year rather than look for jobs, were the smart ones...
Into Topeka hurried Republicans to try to do something. They were unable to disregard the voters' growing disgust with the dry law. Yet they hated to go against the earnest advice of smart old Senator Arthur Capper, 81, veteran dry leader, who wanted no mention made of prohibition. So the worried platform makers shadowboxed around the question, promised to submit it to the voters...
...Sunday the Herald modestly followed up with a 440-page issue. Bow-tied Publisher Choate was too smart to clutter it with trite messages of congratulation, carried only one-from Harry Truman. The "Boost New England" theme made the kind of Chamber-of-Commerce play that brought in more than enough ads to pay for the jumbo issue...
...smart money thought that this would be Saratoga's last season. The heavy betting tax (state and county total: 16%) and Saratoga's inaccessibility (180 miles from New York City) were expected to drive fans to the new Atlantic City track, also in full swing last week. The wise money was wrong...
Vigorous Bill Donovan was beaten by Herbert Lehman for Governor in the 1932 Roosevelt landslide. But Bill Donovan was a smart campaigner. He could be either rough or dignified, depending on his opponent. He was also as well known as any New York Republican except Tom Dewey himself...