Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week as U.S. economic czar of World War II, small, shrewd James F. Byrnes worked smoothly, feverishly-but behind closed doors. He issued a few routine orders. But most of the time he was feeling his way. With his small staff-private secretary, two attorneys, four stenographers-he moved into new offices in the just-completed East Wing of the White House. He conferred often and late with Franklin Roosevelt...
...days later, Franklin Roosevelt added six more: to represent labor, farmers and management. Five were well-known presidents of well-known pressure groups.* Least known to the U.S. public, but highly respected in Washington for his practical know-how, was the sixth: bald, outspoken Ralph E. Flanders, 62, a shrewd and independent Yankee and a top-drawer engineer...
Last week the Russian Ballet's shrewd, chunky Sol Hurok clasped his hands over his ample paunch and sighed with content. His Ballet Theatre had just opened Manhattan's annual ballet season at the Metropolitan Opera House. His Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was to join it a week later at the same stand. While balletomanes roared approval in accents as thick as borsch, more staid Manhattanites took stock of the first of five brand-new ballet productions, mooned nostalgically over such puff-skirted favorites as Swan Lake and Sylphides, such latter-day spectacles as Petrouchka and Bluebeard...
...will be a battle of two shrewd coaches this afternoon, and McLaughry has any number of tricks up his sleeve every year. His backs are fast, but the line is the fly in the Dartmouth ointment...
...People's Tsar. These orders did not bring inflation under control. That still has to be done by the organization created to carry out the orders. To administer the new anti-inflation program, as Director of Economic Stabilization, the President chose shrewd, wiry Jimmy Byrnes, 63, a hale good fellow who was one of the smoothest politicians on Capitol Hill before he moved up to the Supreme Court last year. Byrnes is a middle-of-the-roader who can get along with men of all beliefs; he knows when to hold his tongue; he is an expert at finding...