Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astute group of malefactors have recently been circulating pirated editions of the London Telephone Directory. Shrewd, they have reaped pelf from advertising sales. Last week, however, they were ordered by a London court to pay damages ot ?300 ($1,458) to him who owns the copyrights of all British telephone directories, namely the King-Emperor...
Furious was the rate of trading all last week on the New York Stock Exchange. Many a trader had been bearish, gambling on the probabilities that prices would fall. Of this, shrewd men laden with money were fully aware. They bought stocks and in such quantities that the bears could not supply. Shares of the Radio Corporation of America were particularly and peculiarly in demand. One Michael J. Meehan, Manhattan broker, bought and sold them for Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago and the Fisher brothers of Detroit, who managed a sort of corner in R.C.A. stock. Its price, consequently, rose...
...tropic climes, on opposite sides of the twirling globe, shrewd men watched anxiously, last week, the struggle of Great Britain to maintain her world monopolistic grip on rubber...
...Shrewd Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane hastened to slap the epidemic into his column while it was still hot news, unconfirmed, undenied...
...this man it was said by a shrewd observer--Franklin K. Lane nearly fifteen years ago: "Here is a man for us to get next to. He is a Harriman, a Morgan, a Huntington, a Hill, a Bismarck, a Kuhn Loeb, and a damned Yankee all rolled into one! Can you beat...