Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiger," which originated in his drooping mustaches and his striped mandarin robes.* In the Tiger Room of his Mukden palace he kept enormous stuffed Manchurian tigers, served cups of what was supposed to be hot tigers' blood to his guests. More important, he was one of the shrewdest, wiliest politicians in the East. Secretly opposed to Japan, he hypnotized Japanese officials for years into keeping him in power in Manchuria. With other walrus-mustachioed brigands of the Manchurian steppes as his generals he built up a powerful army, built a tremendous arsenal at Mukden, extended his sway to Peiping...
...campaign slogan "Back to Büning!" (see cut) to the extent of nine seats over 1930. The Socialists, his former opponents, were willing to accept him as a leader to stem the tide of Nationalism. Like David Lloyd George in Britain, Heinrich Brüining is probably the shrewdest politician in his country. Newspapers were quick to point out the similarity between his position and that of Britain's tricky Welshman from 1929, when Labor came to power, until the Conservative landslide of last year. They did not mention that for all the fame of his Balance...
...living U. S. artists, two dead ones. The 1,300 eyed the 51. In August, Director Poland's collection will begin a long itinerary to Honolulu, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City. Critics last week called it one of the shrewdest summaries yet made of contemporary U. S. art. Art in San Diego was in good hands last week...
...corporation but we're doing a business job and, damn it, we intend to continue doing it. If we make any mistakes wait until the return of better times and then, if you want to, give us hell individually. . . ." Charles Gates Dawes is credited with being the shrewdest exponent of studied indiscretion since Theodore Roosevelt. Political observers were stirred by his sudden, profanely popular outburst about the "masses"-not as an object for specific relief (Candidate Roosevelt's thesis) but as a national barometer more important than Wall Street and business tycoons- to fresh speculation as to what...
Pandemonium shook the rafters. Matthias Erzberger, a sloppily dressed, good-natured, coarse-voiced Swabian, was perhaps Germany's shrewdest post-War statesman, certainly became Germany's best hated man. As Secretary of State without Portfolio at the time of the Armistice, it was his melancholy duty not only to sign the Armistice but to persuade Germany that she had to accept the Versailles Treaty. Schultz and Tillessen, two Bavarian Nationalists acting under orders from German secret societies, murdered him in the Black Forest...