Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shrewd enough as a card player to have invented the "Vanderbilt Convention" at contract bridge, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt is no less canny as a yachtsman. When he sold his old boat to Chandler Hovey and ordered a new one, yachtsmen were well aware that he and his famed designer, W. Starling Burgess, must have good reason to expect the new boat to be a marked improvement. Rainbow's main fault was bad balance which kept her owner busy experimenting with ballast in 1934, but correcting this was not the only aim of the new venture. Trend in America...
...championship of the world. Major results of Louis' handiwork were two: it made him the first colored man to hold the championship since crafty Jack Johnson allowed himself to be knocked out by Jess Willard in 1915, and it started a new regime in pugilistic finance, by which shrewd, bald-headed Michael Jacobs succeeded Madison Square Garden Corp. as the industry's No. 1 promoter...
Finance. Prize fighting became important business in 1921, when Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier fought each other in Jersey City for a gate of $1,789,000. Unpublicized co-promoter of that fight, with the late famed Tex Rickard. was a shrewd young ticket speculator from Manhattan's lower East Side named Michael Strauss Jacobs. After the Dempsey v. Carpentier fight, Jacobs helped Rickard build and run the new Madison Square Garden. Promoter Rickard died in 1929. In 1934, Ticket Speculator Jacobs became a prizefight promoter on his own account...
...business in pugilism means close co-operation between a heavyweight champion and his handlers on the one hand and a shrewd fight promoter on the other, like the partnership between Promoter Rickard and Champion Dempsey. Last week's fight was the first held for the heavyweight championship under other than Garden auspices since Dempsey won the title. To engage in it, because it promised greater profits. Champion Braddock and his manager had broken a Garden contract to fight German Max Schmeling...
...Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter between U. S. and Japanese cotton textile men, freezing Japan's export quotas at 255,000,000 yd. for 1937-38. These visits stirred the shrewd and courteous Japanese to reciprocity. Last month Mr. Forbes became chairman of a national reception committee for the first Japanese Economic Mission to the U. S. since...