Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin's keen, bouncy Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr., a prewar isolationist, has maintained an almost-unbroken silence on foreign affairs. Last week, at the convention of his own Progressive Party, he spoke. War has not changed Bob La Follette very much. Said...
General Alexander von Falkenhausen, 64, chief for Belgium, is rated a keen, well-tested strategist. Tall, spare, pince-nezed, Junker Falkenhausen has served around the world, was once a $10,000-a-year military adviser to Chiang Kaishek. He likes to read U.S. and British whodunits, play with his prize dachshunds. In action Allied commanders rate him a keen, dangerous opponent...
Britain has a keen eye on postwar Brazil, has made friendly overtures, recognizing Brazil's emergence as a producer as well as a buyer of finished goods. But, with more sense & sensibility than it has sometimes shown in the past, the U.S. has every chance to keep and nurture its biggest, friendliest commercial Good Neighbor...
...came: as Army Staff Chief, Premier General Hideki ("Razor") To jo, a keen smalltime politician, a crack police expert, concurrently serving also as Minister for War, Munitions, Education; as Navy boss, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Navy Minister and oldtime administrative wheel horse. General Jun Ushiroku, Tojo's military-academy classmate, went up to serve as the Army Staff's Vice Chief...
Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...