Word: adroitness
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Said South Carolina's adroit Jimmy Byrnes: "No cotton farmer and no wheat farmer can compete [for labor] with WPA wages...
...president of Daytona Beach's $800,000 co-educational Bethune-Cookman College. Since she turned up in Washington as director of the Division of Negro Affairs in Aubrey Williams' National Youth Administration, Mrs. Bethune has also won recognition as one of her race's most adroit politicians...
...they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively adroit political manipulation in the Senate--this wishful thinking continued and increased. Until very recently America has been deeply, blindly isolationist...
Vice Presidents˜Miner Philip Murray, whose stature as No. 2 man in C.I.O. and probable successor to John Lewis has steadily increased; wise, adroit Sidney Hillman, to whom Mr. Murray absentmindedly referred as "second vice president." (The two are supposedly equal.) Secretary˜Shy, brilliant James Barren Carey, 27, whose United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers have one of the most vigorous and biggest of the younger C.I.O. unions. Mr. Lewis, who considers little Mr. Carey the best of C.I.O.'s youngsters, maneuvered his election as a salute to them. Mr. Carey thereupon dashed home to Manhattan, where...
...more agile conversationalist than any of his fellow press lords-or such transatlantic contemporaries as William Randolph Hearst or Joseph Medill Patterson-Maxwell Aitken was never noted for his powers of debate in Commons. But he was an adroit political tactician. He won his peerage for ''merging" the Lloyd George "Win the War" Cabinet in 1917, was made Minister of Information (propaganda) a year later, and in 1922 shoved his friend Andrew Bonar Law into the Prime Ministry. This was a shortlived triumph with a painful ending. Bonar Law died of cancer of the throat a year later...