Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Maritime Union's (C.I.O.) President Joe Curran chortled aloud. He alone of maritime labor leaders has welcomed Negroes into his union-a shrewd move to increase his union's strength...
...next day, when Willkie flew off toward China, it was warm Indian summer. As the great Liberator roared into the clouds, the group at the Moscow airport knew that the big, inquisitive, naive-shrewd American had scored a great personal hit in the land of the Soviets. He did not know the military answers to "How about a second front?" But after a week he thought he knew enough to make a formal statement to the world. Said he: "I am now convinced that we can best help Russia by establishing a real second front in Europe with Britain...
...property. It had fought its way put of heavy depression losses ($500,000 m 1933). Taking cognizance of the new luxury-clipped realities, it had unloaded Vanity Fair and The American Golfer, tapped wider audiences with Hollywood Patterns and Glamour. What it needed now to keep it solvent was shrewd management. Condè-Nastians agree that President "Pat" Patcèvitch promises a more solvent future than anybody else in sight...
...Cassidy grubbed away writing a music-and-theater column for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Her pay was low but her spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton...
Snow on India. Digging deep into India's troubled politics, Correspondent Edgar Snow of Satevepost wrote that long-sought agreement between the Hindu-dominated Congress and the Moslem League of shrewd-bargaining Ali Mohamed Jinnah would lead to almost immediate independence.* He said that war-plant production and expansion would be greatly accelerated by the motive of patriotism; that military training and conscription might be introduced; men of ability brought to defense service; villagers trained, as in China, to make war goods. "India," said Snow, "would lift up her head, shake off her inferiority complex, and get in tune...