Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started flying. Democrat Lehman began by asking how Murchison and Richardson had bought the 800,000 shares of Central stock, then selling at around 25. Gloated Young: "It was one of the cleverest deals I have ever made in my financial history." Replied Lehman: "I am not looking for clever deals, Mr. Young." How, Lehman wanted to know, was the purchase financed? How much of their own money did they put up? The Texans borrowed the money, said Young. His Alleghany Corp. had lent $7,500,000; Alleghany's President Allan P. Kirby had anted up another...
...said Young. Countered Lehman: "Certainly there is a very grave question in my mind whether a stock can be legitimately voted by people who have not any real ownership of that stock save as there might be an equity if the market advances . . . That deal, which you described as clever, seems too clever by my old-fashioned standards." At one point, Bob Young could take it no longer. Bounding to his feet, turning to newsmen and spectators in the caucus room, he cried: "I would offer any of you gentlemen here the same deal-anyone in this room. Anyone that...
...Think So?" After four days of this, Bender was exasperated. "You evade!" he bellowed at Lev. "You hesitate, you delay . . . You're a very clever man!" Lev softened. "You think so?" he asked. But his delight vanished when Bender accused him of making "shoddy" hats for the Navy. Lev replied angrily: "I deserve at least from the committee I should get a congressional medal. Never mind accusing my workmanship!" When the subcommittee produced letters from his competitors complaining about the favors Lev mysteriously won from Government employees, the capmaker brushed them aside: "My competitors, they love...
...absentees, according to the experts, were people who usually vote Socialist. Even so, Labor got 46.3% of the less than 27,000,000 votes. It represents a strong sentiment in the nation, but it lacks leadership, and its leadership lacks a program. Cockney Herbert Morrison, 67, a cheerful and clever but not very profound man, is in line for Attlee's leadership; after him comes the aggressive and younger (49) Hugh Gaitskell, who is able but brittle, admired but not loved. Both are violently anti-Bevan...
...negative except by flat-earth men and extreme skeptics. Comes at last the big moment when the well-quizzed reader reaches the pages containing his analysis ("Yourself as you really are") and settles down to a tasty feast of ham-and-egoism. "You are a fraud-a clever, charming, amusing fraud"; "You may be regarded ... as highly intelligent, yet your intelligence is curiously limited, sterile, and stunted"; "In many respects you are not a bad woman"; "You are a bit like a character out of a Chekhov play...