Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business as Usual. Perhaps with these difficulties in mind, Dr. Benes proposed to visit the U.S. several months ago, would have come sooner if he had been encouraged to do so. He is a shrewd enough politician to know that a demonstration of White House friendship should improve his position among his dissident countrymen. Before he left London, his Foreign Ministry announced that he will stay strictly away from the Russo-Polish affair ("the issue is between Poland, the Soviet Union and the western democracies"). And Mr. Roosevelt had already chosen his emissary to Moscow: Joseph E. Davies...
Britain has held the line through the shrewd use of subsidies. Under them the Government pays a premium for increased production without directly penalizing the lowincome, consumer (although other consumers, as taxpayers, pay in the end). The Ministry of Food buys up most of the supply of some goods, for instance, then distributes them at a loss. Subsidy has been relatively easy in Britain because she imports so many raw materials. Canada has also successfully applied the subsidy system to tea, coffee, oranges and other staples...
Granite-faced old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, had at last been pushed from his stubborn stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now came out for cancellation of about half of 1942 taxes; the Demo cratic majority of his committee gave his bill a favorable report...
...plane a minute going over to attack Axis positions. On the U.S. II Corps front, whenever an officer asked to have a hill dusted, Boston attack planes arrived within an hour to do the job. The Luftwaffe's fighter strength increased during the week, and the Germans made shrewd use of it on each momentarily crucial sector. But massed planes and massed guns were beginning to crack the defenders...
...Shrewd, sense-making Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who has turned down several war-czar jobs to stay on the bench. But Bill Douglas is not in any political hurry...