Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed in 1936, was glad to join Mr. Dies. They got their resolution passed-but when the committee was picked, angry Sam Dickstein was left...
Every round was the same. Challenger Armstrong sprang out of his corner and in a split second was toe-to-toe and chest-to-chest with his opponent. For 15 rounds he pounded ring-wise Barney Ross with relentless fury-1.200 punches in 45 minutes. Barney Ross, dripping blood and teetering on his helpless legs, refused to quit, went the full 15 rounds rather than have his first knockout chalked against...
...that were lying idle because of a drive on slot machines and gambling. Labor unions, often the victims of unemployed racketeers, provided the solution. Last year, Clark Pendar, head of the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association of Kansas City, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, found it wise to leave town in a hurry. Promptly and without formality, Walter A. Mahan, well known to the police but up to that moment undistinguished as a labor leader, became Business Agent for the retail clerks...
...Cabinet's only unmarried member had taken the wise women of Washington by surprise. They had known that an earnest, athletic girl, sister of the wife of his late stepson Wilmarth, had visited in his Washington home on and off since 1935. She had worked at small jobs in the Interior, helped run his empty home for him, accompanied him to social functions, helped him select and decorate his country place, "Headwater Farm" near Olney, Md. During his illness last year she visited his hospital bedside almost daily. Their relationship had seemed like that of father & daughter...
Easy Money is a two-and-a-half-hour afternoon broadcast over WPG (Atlantic City). Presenting riddles at five-minute intervals, the station pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities...