Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large extent, followed the political fortunes of Governor Smith in New York and it is essential that this support be brought-back to the Republican party, and not be permitted to extend into other states." The kind of extension Mr. Howard possibly had in mind was the Democrats' shrewd move last autumn in appointing Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro pugilist, to align votes in Chicago's black belt the way Tammany has succeeded in aligning dark Harlem in New York. Mr. Howard had a program, he said. His program was to nominate for Vice President that tall 39-year...
...ominous convention. Most entered Germany on forged passports. All were agents of the Third International: the Communist bureau at Moscow devoted to fomenting "The World Revolution of The World Proletariat" (TIME, Jan. 30). As the delegates filtered into Cassel, several were recognized by the German secret police. Shrewd, the police officials allowed the convention of professional seditionists to proceed in apparent deadly secrecy but contrived to overhear all that passed by means of dictaphones...
Because the renowned Pilsner beer industry of Czechoslovakia would profit hugely by a repeal of the U. S. Eighteenth Amendment, Zealot Maresch has long enjoyed complete toleration and some quiet encouragement by the shrewd burghers of Prague. Last week however public sentiment turned bitterly against him overnight, when he printed what was construed as an affront to the political idol of Czechoslovaks, famed Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. As everyone knows, Dr. Benes was the chief lieutenant of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in their heroic and successful struggle to create the Czechoslovak State during the World...
...Road. Only a French journalist could chatter of White Slavery with such inoffensive skimming swiftness as Monsieur Albert Londres has attained in The Road to Buenos Ayres. The man is a magpie?a shrewd one?and a correspondent of Le Petit Parisien. When Argentine passport officials asked dapper Magpie Londres why he proposed to land at Buenos Aires, he blithely chirped: "Mes amis, I have come to see your souteneurs, your pimps...
...Marques, Don Estanislao de Urquijo, is president of the Compania Telefonica and has inherited a close financial connection with the Bourbon dynasty (his father having given many a shrewd bit of advice to Alfonso XIII. in the King's early days. The present Marques de Urquijo is rated Spain's greatest banker (Banco Urquijo of Madrid...