Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Chiang was now master of South and Central China but many Kuomintang politicians denounced him as a Fascist or worse. With a characteristic gesture he resigned all his offices and went to Japan. There Chiang, the shrewd, hardheaded, hard-living, callous soldier who had made his way to power, proceeded to court pretty, educated, high-minded Soong Meiling. Her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, today China's greatest financier, informed General Chiang as courteously as possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling...
Long Pull. During 1937 the beginning of the Japanese invasion found the Generalissimo then "the only man in China who did not think it best to fight." In his shrewd head Chiang Kai-shek knew better than anyone else that the New China was not yet ready to use her War Machine; that to fight would be to incur the catastrophic losses China has now suffered; that his Government would inevitably be driven from Nanking; that the hand of the Chinese Communists would be immensely strengthened-unless Japan's triumph should indeed be utter & complete. Knowing all this, Chiang...
...which escaped the visitation of the Black Committee in the airmail investigation, the ultimate decision is vital. Under the Lee-McCarran Bill, the I.C.C. would give preference in granting certificates for overseas air service to applicants already holding the necessary foreign licenses and franchises-which Pan American's shrewd young President Juan Terry Trippe has forehandedly tied up on an exclusive basis in most countries where U. S. planes are likely to land. For Pan American the Lee-McCarran Bill would, in effect, preserve the status...
FROM THESE ROOTS-Mary M. Colum -Scribner ($2.50). Twelve essays, discussing writers as far apart as Flaubert and Thomas Wolfe, linked together by an analysis of "the ideas that have made modern literature"; the work of a seasoned, conservative critic whose writing is always lucid and shrewd, sometimes (as in her comments on "the despair of the modern world") eloquent, powerful, exact...
...lively piece of Americana, Bishop Whipple's Southern Diary is a 208-page volume that contains some shrewd observations on the weakening effects of slavery on the Southern white population, a good picture of Florida justice, a horrified account of New Orleans' fabled immorality, pious reflections mingled with longings for home and loved ones. Henry Whipple loved facts. He noted that the river boat Missouri used 500 cords of wood on its 1,100-mile trip from New Orleans to St. Louis, a third of its round-trip expense of $3,200. He put down the population...