Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge Gary. Mr. Schwab bought the broken down Bethlehem Steel Corp., and made it U. S. Steel's greatest competitor...
...ambition of most motor racers is to open a motor repair or accessory shop when they break down physically. Albert Champion, shrewd and foreseeing, abandoned racing while he still was healthy. He imported spark plugs and sold them to the then small and experimenting U. S. motor manufacturers. Twenty years ago he began a small factory in Boston to make them himself. William Crapo Durant, planning to organize General Motors, built a factory with him at Flint, Mich., and the fame of Albert Champion, racer, faded behind the greater fame of his initials which trademarked the spark plugs he made...
...workmen with nine months' starvation before them as the works shut down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some sex. Moments of engrossing writing; moments of shrewd, imaginative staging scarcely salvage the stormy whole. The title is derived from a strip which runs materials through the factory from the tangled elements to the finished automobile, ready for F.O.B...
...Herald Tribune correspondent who reported this statement has a mind that rises above routine. He is, as it happens, the pink-cheeked, Harvard-educated, quick-thinking grandson and namesake of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Besides being a shrewd reporter, long-legged Grandson Lodge is internationally-minded beyond his years (26) and is in training for a political career of his own. Personal interest was doubtless mixed with professional curiosity when Grandson Lodge pressed his inquiry and found 1) that the Department of State had not been consulted prior to the issuance of Assistant Secretary Lowman's order...
...actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like his earlier shows; sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd. It is all Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There is one terrible moment when an actor representing Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith (whom the show booms for President) makes a speech...