Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospects included: trim, smart Anna Rosenberg, labor relations expert for WMC, who would replace Frances Perkins' unfashionable hats with modish millinery from Manhattan Hatter Sally Victor; the A.F. of L. Teamsters' droop-jowled old Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin; War Manpower's Paul McNutt; ex-Pennsylvania Congressman James McGranery. And there was always able, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant, head of the International Labor Office since 1939 and now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Enid, Okla. (pop. 28,081), a smart grain dealer, Dale H. Johnson, bought mung seeds, begged the skeptical farmers in Garfield County near the Oklahoma Panhandle to plant a test crop. Johnson believed that the beans could be seeded, grown and harvested during the three to four months between the end of the winter wheat harvest and the beginning of fall planting for next season's wheat. He was right. The beans grow well when there is sufficient rainfall in late summer...
...smooth, smart advertising copywriters at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. last week had their little annual joke on themselves and all other writers of smooth, smart department-store Christmas advertising. Macy's bought a six-column ad in the New York Times for a cartoon of a befuddled, determined male saying to a glamorous second-floor dummy: "I'm looking for the Renoir peignoir with the fabulous moonbeam bow." Underneath, Macy's printed "The Man's Glossary (revised 1944 edition) of Unfamiliar Words & Phrases-As Used by Advertising Writers to Describe Female Apparel...
...Army men and Russian political experts were quartered in the turreted Hotel Torni, the plushy Societetshuset and the old Estonian Legation in swank Brunnsparken. They raced around Helsinki in Russian autos. Their boss was smart, rugged Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Leningrad's Communist chief and Stalin's heir apparent. In the thick of last week's crisis, General Zhdanov suddenly zoomed off to Moscow, then zoomed back, presumably bringing Stalin's latest word to the Finns. What it might be Finns would soon find...
...Syndicate. Marshall Field should have plenty of competition. By last week smart, suave Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, had lined up a potent phalanx of publishers-Charles Scribner's Sons, Little Brown & Co., Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie...