Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berne, Switzerland, will be sent the Yale man, Hugh R. Wilson, to succeed Hugh S. Gibson* as U. S. Minister. Keen-witted, methodical, Mr. Wilson, of a family of Chicago wholesalers, a onetime Chairman of the Yale Daily News, entered the diplomatic service as private secretary to the U. S. Minister at Lisbon. Recently he has been chief of the bureau of current information in the Department of State...
...week he wrote: "We have been so absorbed here [in Congress] that I have not considered it desirable to pause long enough to disturb a queer dream about the paternity of the Federal Reserve act." Less patient "fathers," at dinner tables, might justly say: "In 1913, we who were keen to the inflexibility of the old National banking laws, succeeded in putting through the Congress the Federal Reserve Bank law. . . ." Alexander Hamilton created a national bank for the new U. S. None the less there were major business crises...
Four times the Rt. Hon. James A. Robb has appeared impeccably to present a budget before the Canadian Parliament, and every time has achieved warm applause. Canadians know that he will be crisp, profound and lucid on these occasions. His keen sense of politics humanizes his high, austere ability. Last week he said: "Four years ago, when I presented my first budget, Canada was still suffering from the effect of post-War depression. Today all traces of that depression have disappeared; a spirit of optimism is general, and our domestic and international trade is flourishing." Ergo, Finance Minister Robb presented...
...more respect for the artistic value of a pretty girl than I, but in this girl-made era we are forgetting the fact that artistically and historically, the male of the species is of some importance. . . . "Mr. Stone seems to me to represent the genuine, clean-minded, keen young man of today in these United States. Every girl will have a candidate for this honor, but if she looks at the portrait I have done of Mr. Stone she is more likely to see more than a trace of that ideal young man whose picture she carries in her heart...
...Andover five are expected to furnish keen opposition. Avery of the schoolboys being a forward star of high calibre...