Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civil war in the U.S. within a decade after the peace, and the loss of freedom on the North American continent seem serious possibilities to Harvard's shrewd, studious President James Bryant Conant. Last week, in an article in the May Atlantic Monthly entitled "Wanted: American Radicals," he proposed some preventives...
...after his arrival Joe Davies was summoned to the Kremlin. He had met Stalin five years ago, the climax of Mission I to Moscow. Then Joseph Stalin had impressed the Ambassador as "a strong mind . . . sharp, shrewd and above all . . . wise . . . exceedingly kindly and gentle. . . . A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him." Now Mr. Davies found his old acquaintance as amiable as ever, still wearing a military tunic and boots, but looking healthier, a trifle stouter. Certainly, said Joe Davies later, "he doesn't look like...
...same squeeze play occurred in the last war, but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver (to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap importers-and their bagless customers-wish they had another Baruch...
More important than such precepts is example. One of the first practical examples of private U.S. capital going into Latin America on a partnership basis is at hand. Slim, shrewd Charles Foster Glore (of the investment banking firm of Glore, Forgan & Co.) has formed a Mexican corporation with a down-to-earth purpose and a jawbreaking name: Impulsora Comercial e Industrial S.A. (Industrial & Commercial Development Corp...
Almost 21 years of Fascism has taught Benito Mussolini to be shrewd as well as ruthless. Last week he toughened the will of his people to fight, by appeals to their patriotism, and by propaganda which made the most of their fierce resentment of British and U.S. bombings. He also sought to reduce the small number pf Italians who might try to cut his throat by independent deals with the Allies...