Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emily Newell Blair, 53, began campaigning as a feminist in her native Missouri in 1914. She followed through the whole suffrage fight that resulted in the 19th Amendment. She saw what women could do politically, hoped for even greater things. An excellent politician with a shrewd knack of organizing and leading women, she was elected to the Democratic National Committee in 1921, rose in three years to be its first vice-chairman...
...after the War was Public Relations Counsel for President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; who with publicity man Edward L. Bernays, conducted a publicity campaign for the independence of Lithuania. The Havana Post and its evening companion, the Telegram, offered an outlet for Byoir's energy, his knack for diplomacy, his natural urge for influence. He bought the Post and Telegram from Rafael R. Govin, publisher of El Mundo, principal Cuban daily. The same day, says legend, he refused an offer and a profit of $250,000 from Lord Rothermere...
...occasion was an exhibition of work by Samuel Johnson Woolf, frequent TIME cover-artist, whose specialty is drawing and interviewing celebrated people. Artist Woolf has a psychological as well as artistic knack for his work. He gets not only good likenesses, but good talk. Many of the famed are either brusque or secretive with newsmen, strangers. But while Artist Woolf sketches renowned features he says just the things to stimulate the response of renowned personalities. Onetime Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany willingly confessed his identity to Artist Woolf while stopping incognito in Rome, sat for him in a hotel...