Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, amid deadly secrecy, the Suffolk was inspected for the first time by civilians, when three Cabinet members and 150 M. P.'s went aboard. The Admiralty, shrewd to the last, decreed that the torpedo rooms, and gun control stations should be locked and all instrument panels covered with concealing canvas...
Impartial observers thought that the Conservative Cabinet has hit upon a shrewd program, well calculated to catch votes, and probably destined to further the extremely basic interests of British industry and agriculture. The burden of the "rates" has not seldom been recklessly imposed by local authorities, and should properly become a matter of national concern. Finally the 1,000,000 workpeople who continue unemployed in Great Britain should be able to find many a job in the producing industries which Chancellor Churchill proposes to assist or partially subsidize. Therefore the votes of the unemployed and the votes of most laboring...
...this last headline. They recalled that during the slump of the Belgian franc (TIME, March 29, 1926, et seq.), the Government of Belgium flatly rejected a proposal by Captain Loewenstein that he should lend $50,000,000 "without interest" to save the franc, but only upon certain all too shrewd conditions...
Such mad and quixotic propaganda is particularly obnoxious to the Holy See because it strains the proverbially good relations existing between shrewd, sleepy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of the French Republic and suave, far-sighted Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal Secretary of State. These two statesmen were in perfect accord, some months ago, when L'Action Française and all other works of its editors were placed on the Catholic Index Expurgatorius. Still more were they in accord, last week, when the dread weapon of excommunication was drawn against the incorrigible Royalists...
...Davison's shrewd evaluation of the lively mentality and personality of Thomas William Lamont was influential in making him a Morgan partner in 1911. Thomas Lamont was 41 then. Mr. Davison also noted the persuasive powers of Lawyer Dwight Whitney Morrow, and greeted him as partner after the elder Morgan's death. Dwight Morrow was 41 then...