Word: adroitness
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...soda water. With astounding boldness the State ordered that men drafted as "auxiliaries" while holding jobs shall continue to be paid their full wages, irrespective of how much or little time police duties leave them for their regular work. Thus Germany's employer class was saddled by adroit Chancellor Hitler with most of the burden of supporting what amounts to an additional force of 60.000 fully armed Germans...
With smaller resources than his father, Adrian Iselin has the reputation among yachtsmen of being equally adroit, if a shade less bold. He has owned Victory sloops, six-and eight-metre boats and another star, made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into fashion. With his Ace, built in 1924, he won the International Championship in 1925, the Bacardi Cup in 1927, innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died...
Faced by suggestion that for economy's sake he weed a few horses, grooms and coachmen out of the Royal Stables, George V, King & Emperor, produced last week an adroit counter plan. Hereafter dispatch boxes will be carried between the various Government offices and Buckingham Palace in royal carriages driven by cockaded royal coachmen. Up to last week the dispatch boxes were carried, at standard tariffs, in taxicabs...
...form a Cabinet. The President attached seven complex and, as events proved, impossible conditions. After 14 days of Cabinet crisis there emerged as Chancellor, out of a welter of intrigue, "His Field Grey Eminence," suave, sly Defense Minister General Kurt von Schleicher. By his friends the General's adroit scheming is said to have "made and broken" as Chancellor both fashionable, aristocratic Franz von Papen and his predecessor, pious, ascetic Dr. Heinrich Brüning...
...Peace publicity since Edward Bok. It is the kind of holiday which the world is aching to take and on which those potent governesses of government: the steel and arms cartels, are loath to let the world go. But because the plan smacks of idealism, and because also the adroit diplomacy of our Allied debtors would never permit a connection between their arms and their obligations, it seems destined never to get much farther than the third pages of liberal newspapers and the minds of a few liberal men. The Dartmouth...