Word: cunningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Skipper Herbert Hartley of the Leviathan, commercial commodore for all the people, resigned. He said he wanted a home ashore after 35 years at sea. He said he would go into the cotton business. To succeed him, the Shipping Board promoted Vice Commodore Harold A. Cun- ningham of the United States Lines, long captain of the S. S. George Washington, now of the Leviathan...
Roland Young was selected with un canny precision for this curiously agree able king. He plays with such gentle cun ning that the evening swishes suavely past like a cat in silk pajamas. There are several shrewd helpers and an excellent back stage device to counterfeit the rattles of artillery deploying before the palace in the embattled second act. Mr. Sherwood has contributed much high nonsense, nota bly a bitter game of checkers between the King and a gravely obese footman...
Likely candidates for the vacant governorship seemed to be: Agent General for Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert; Edward Henry Cun- ningham of Iowa, already a Federal Reserve Board member; William P. Gould Harding, governor of the Boston Federal bank. Mr. Harding was Mr. Crissinger's predecessor...