Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bank Backing. A suave, plump, oval-faced statesman, eyes keen, beard a scrubby Vandyke, was hailed as the real creator of the new gold lira. He is Count Guiseppe Volpi di Misurata. Citizens of the U. S. remember the business-like fashion in which he negotiated the funding of Italy's War debt to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925). Last week he revealed the vast credits which he has built up abroad to enable Italy to defend her new currency against fluctuation on international exchange. Said he: "The Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international...
Well poised Germans no longer take seriously that keen but brittle strategist, General Erich Ludendorff. Long of since he has Hindenburg"- if ceased to he be ever "the was - brains but not until last week did he dare to flout openly the great Feldmarschall who is President of the Republic...
Thus spoke at Manhattan, last week, the President of the United Press Associations, Karl August Bickel, keen, versatile Scripps-Howard newspaper executive, recently returned from around-the-world journey which included Russia. Soon Mr. Bickel continued: "While I visited Moscow Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, despite the fact he was so ill that he was compelled to remain in bed, was good enough to talk with me one evening ... of Russian-American relations...
There follows the Delegate of Czechoslovakia, keen, supple Foreign Minister Edouard Benes (Benesch) who casually observes that he sees nothing very new about the Soviet plan. The late U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, says Benes, envisioned wholesale scrapping of armaments...
...early days of anti-slavery campaigning American journalism, actuated by a Keen realization of this responsibility, was at its best. Journalism was a profession, and was regarded by its practitioners as a profession of high honor and duty...