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...polled 48,000 votes in Massachusetts' Republican primary for Governor, although he did not have the official Townsend accolade. Nor was his deal with Candidate Saltonstall the brainchild, as many observers guessed, of shrewd young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. It was engineered by an opportunist even shrewder: William Henry McMasters...
...when a major-league racketeer is tough enough to survive the bullets of his confreres and shrewd enough to evade the police, there is one pitfall left for him: the income-tax laws. Of all the known criminals currently at large in the U. S., none is tougher or shrewder than roly-poly, button-eyed little Johnny Torrio, whose chin was almost shot away in Chicago in 1925, whose skill in evading the police goes back to before 1920 when he belonged to Brooklyn's famed Five Points Gang. Last week, in New York City, a Federal grand jury...
...from 1921 to 1929, whose administration was marked by gambling scandals. Farmer-Laborites, after a split among themselves which eliminated their present Mayor, Thomas E. Latimer, nominated Kenneth Clair Haycraft, 1928 All-America end at the University of Minnesota. Young and inexperienced, End Haycraft did his best against a shrewder oldster. But when the votes were counted, Mayor Leach was in by a majority of some 17,000 votes. On its first independent try since it was orphaned, the once victorious Farmer-Labor Party was ditched...
...have Italy, instead of Japan, gain the upper hand in Africa's last independent empire. But these were not normal times. Abyssinia has been a member of the League of Nations in good standing since 1923. In addition, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie was daily proving a shrewder diplomat than anyone had suspected. He had appealed officially to the League of Nations and raised a whirlwind of sentimental sympathy throughout Europe...
Propaganda, subsidies and in many cases direct intimidation so swelled the Nazi Party in Czechoslovakia that the Government ordered it banned in October 1933 together with all other parties that would not subscribe to the principles of democracy. Since then Berlin's foreign policy has grown wiser and shrewder. There suddenly appeared on Czechoslovakia's political horizon an earnest, near-sighted German-speaking gymnasium instructor named Konrad Henlein, organizer of a party known as the Sudetendeutsch Heimat Front. Ceaselessly he has repeated that he takes no orders from Adolf Hitler, has no intention of preaching political union with...