Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained to Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring ghostwriting into prominence by employing such eminent men as Judge Samuel Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Brain Truster Raymond Moley and Poet Archibald MacLeish. Dean of them all, and perhaps the shrewdest, was the late Charley Michelson, longtime pressagent for the Democratic Party, whose typewriter supplied uncounted Democratic bigwigs with taunts that made a whole generation of Republicans miserable...
...press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard, and sat as their leader when the roll call began. When the clerk got to Puerto rice, "Alcalde Jaime Miguel Culeo" delivered the Island's vote for Roosevelt. It was Curley...
Labor strategists would almost certainly not schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing...
...Point and on Smithfield Street hung out his shingle as a lawyer. He knew all the laws on foreclosures and he traded in other men's recklessness. In 1870 he had founded T. Mellon & Sons and had gone into private banking. Into this enterprise went two of his shrewdest sons-Andrew William and Richard Beatty...
...Orleans, the mules will be shipped in lots of about 900 to Greece, to aid the recovery of that nation's ravaged agriculture. This quiet announcement was the final settlement of an international war which had raged for a year among some of the world's shrewdest mule skinners...