Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot let them cross the mountains. Fascist propaganda, though not yet as serious in Morocco as in Tunisia, is a deep worry to French Moroc can officials. Shrewd diplomacy on the part of General Charles Nogues, present Resident General of Morocco, has reduced a nationalist Arab league known as the Jeunes Marocains to comparative impotence. But should the Tuaregs go over the passes, they might easily kindle a major rebellion...
...defense and attack were thus in the hands of one man. Spunky General Jose Miaja ("The Savior of Madrid") reassumed civil and military control of the capitol after a four-week interregnum by a Civilian Council. The reinstatement of Miaja, famed for his valor and firmness, was a popular, shrewd move...
...sure of his ground. After C. I. O. announced its drive for a million oil workers last spring, Governor Allred of Texas indulged in considerable breast-beating about how his great oil State was not going to be another "Michigan." Shot back by Laborman Fremming was a shrewd invitation to Governor Allred to help purge the oil workers' union of "any member subversive to American institutions...
...Grand Old Party of Lincoln, McKinley and Harding last week received the ultimate insult. In the American Magazine shrewd old Charles ("Charley the Mike") Michelson, ace Democratic press-agent whose propagandizing since 1928 gets an owl's share of credit for returning his Party to power and keeping it there, published a straight-faced article titled My Advice...
...left Cambridge a month later to become economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since then a Harvard professor chiefly in name, he has been upped to the bank's deputy governorship, which the 1935 Banking Act converted into a vice-presidency. Last week, with a shrewd competitive stroke, Harvard's Conant tethered an elusive man and filled a difficult job. He appointed John Henry Williams as first dean of Harvard's slowly hatching Littauer School of Public Administration...