Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warning shout. His face red with apprehension, he pointed an accusing finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect...
...first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they erected the Hôtelrie de Notre Dame de France. Here in 1893 was held a Eucharistic Congress. In 1900, republican...
...Juggler Loree had spent some four years attempting to construct. For union of the Kansas City Southern and the Cotton Belt was essential to the southern portion of the Loree plan. The northern portion has, of course, long since collapsed. So passes from the rail consolidation stage Juggler Loree, shrewd and potent but faced with too heavy odds. Two of his stage "properties" - the Wabash and the Lehigh Valley roads - are prominent in the present rail-merger performance. Headliners of this program are the Two Van Sweringens, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. To the Interstate Commerce Commis sion came last...
Extravagant U. S. smokers may pay 15? for a 15? package of cigarets. Shrewd cigaret buyers, however, find little difficulty in getting two packs for a quarter, one pack for 13?. At Atlantic & Pacific chain stores, indeed, a carton (ten packs) of 15? cigarets is sold at $1.14, and R. H. Macy & Co., famed price reducer, offers the carton at $1.09. Thus the "list price" of the largest selling cigarets has been cut a penny here, a penny there, and several pennies elsewhere...
Archibald Robertson Graustein. As a young Harvard law graduate, Archibald Graustein was just the man Tycoon Chace needed to look after his interests. A turbine for work, a turtle for silence, enormously shrewd, Lawyer Graustein was given charge of International Paper five years ago. Consolidations, trade agreements, and his activities on the directorates of other Chace interests, have kept hard-driving Mr. Graustein busy day and night, but now the industrial empire of which he is chancellor is approaching romantic vastitude. Grausteinia is becoming Graustark.* In the imperial coffers lies a treasure to which the felicitous French have given...