Word: acumen
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...fourth largest stockholder (5,000 shares) and had no intention of watching his investments depreciate without a murmur. Last spring Mr. Zerk launched a ferocious proxy campaign to oust the management, charging them with pocketing unconscionable fat bonuses, with gross inefficiency and general lack of business acumen...
Lindbergh is, and always has been, a natural human being, blessed with great courage and ability, and with enough business acumen to see the value of well-handled publicity. Does Mr. Bartlett realize that his little tin-god told newspaper men to publish, as soon as he arrived at Le Bourget, the fact that he was a simple fellow, who brought with him some sandwiches and several letters of introduction; that his stay in Paris was continually under the guiding hand of that master diplomat, Ambassader Herrick, who saw the international value of Lindbergh's flight; that Lindbergh's return...
...Carolina" is the story of Will Connelly, scion of a decaying Southern family who strays from the old manse occasionally for an interlude with the daughter of a somewhat socially backward neighbor. Janet, for it is she, displays a combination of charming romanticism and business acumen common to the movies but strangely rare in real life. But do these virtues win her a place in the heart of Will Connelly's mother? They do not. The mother would rather see Will married off to an heiress. Nevertheless, the match is accomplished and Janet and Will add to their romantic success...
...SPLENDID YOUR ACCOUNT OF NEW YORK CITY POLITICAL SITUATION [TIME OCT. 23] BEST I HAVE READ EX-SENATOR EDWARD J AHEARN HAS NOT ALONE YOUTH AND VITALITY BUT COUPLED WITH SHREWD POLITICAL ACUMEN TO RESURRECT AND) REHABILITATE TAMMANY HE WAS BORN AND BRED INTO POLITICS...
...American history. If this program could be recorded and released many years from now, when the men and things we now take for granted will be history, it would give our posterity a wonderful insight of our present civilization. . . . H. O. BOLDUAN Maple Lake, Minn. ... I salute your acumen and endorse your judgment. . . . NATHAN BOONE WILLIAMS Washington, D. C. . . . Permit me as one of your stockholders to extend my congratulations on your selection, as in my opinion and in that of many of my friends, "The March of TIME" was, by long odds the outstanding feature on the radio...