Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion called out Dr. Kung's shrewdest, toughest talents. The Jap blockade of the China coast ended the country's biggest source of revenue-customs receipts-and the Jap conquest of the northern salt mines cut off the second largest source, the salt tax. In his softest mandarin manner, Dr. Kung wheedled governments and bankers from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia for credit. He upped taxes as much as the sweating coolies could stand, winked at the grafters and then squeezed the squeezers. Gradually he was forced to open the floodgates of inflation wider & wider until it has many...
...Universal producer, the studio sent around a photographer to immortalize the event. "Well," snapped Miss Harrison, "do you want some leg art?" (see cut). Besides using a pair of ah-inspiring legs, she also uses a mind trained at the Sorbonne, at Oxford, and by England's shrewdest director...
Tradition-loving Organized Baseball, whose major-league pattern has not been altered in 28 years, frowns at such loud Lochinvars out of the West. But baseball's shrewdest minds see two real possibilities, and call Rowland the man to actualize them...
...Roosevelt, as Walter Lippmann pointed out, seemed to assume that "it is good politics in the year 1944 to propose the very things which no other politician has ever regarded as anything but straight political suicide." And "we all know that Mr. Roosevelt is just about the shrewdest and most successful practical politician of our time...
Last week, this soldier logic was Mr. Roosevelt's. "The shrewdest and most successful practical politician of our time" may have convinced himself that the way to get in tune with the listeners at home is to speak with the voice of the soldiers abroad...