Word: adroitness
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...week marched alert, industrious Nicholas Roosevelt of New York as Vice Governor-General of the Philippines. A few minutes later he went marching out again as U. S. Minister to Hungary. Between those two marches lay the solution to one of President Hoover's touchiest appointive jobs. With adroit conciliatory hands the President had reshuffled his cards, dealt a moral victory to the native politicos of the Philippines, to Mr. Roosevelt a face-saving promotion, to his own Administration a neat out. Other simultaneous dealings included the acceptance of the resignation of Leland Harrison as Minister to Uruguay...
Engaged. McClelland Barclay, famed painter of advertisements for Fisher Body Co. and Camel Cigarets; and Helene Marie C. Haskin, his model for Fisher Body advertisements, a member of the cast last year of Fred Stone's musical comedy Ripples; in Manhattan. He is notably adroit with...
...Levands' Beacon soon jolted Wichita like a battering ram. It sprouted all the loud, flamboyant labels of the Denver Post. It applied all the high-pressure business technique of the adroit and powerful Bonfils & Tammen. The Brothers Murdock at first affected to ignore the newcomers but rural Kansas editors have found that an almost certain way of getting themselves quoted in the Murdocks' Eagles is to take a crack at the (to them) unspeakable Levands. Some of these cracks, which the Brothers Levand say are "inspired" by the Brothers Murdock, are too much for even the Mur docks to reprint...
...Youngstown last week Cyrus Stephen Eaton, large stockholder in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., offered $12,000,000 cash for 100,000 shares of Youngstown stock. Though the offer was promptly refused, as Mr. Eaton must have known that it would be, this was an adroit counter- attack on the part of the Eaton forces who have gone into court to prevent consummation of the Youngstown-Bethlehem Steel Corp. merger voted by Youngstown stockholders on April 11. White-haired, 76-year-old James Anson Campbell, Youngstown chairman and leader of the Youngstown pro merger party, had testified that Mr. Eaton...
Water, Bananas. First reply to the Sackett speech from a Power man was by George N. Tidd, president of American Gas & Electric Co. He arose in Berlin to thank the Ambassador for calling public attention (and public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...