Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Machine men do not do their contemptible work openly. They do it in the dark. They are shrewd. If they control Senators or Representatives or members of the legislature they are not continually pulling the strings; because it would too soon be known that such men were tools. However, they do pull the strings when they need to have their tools work for them; and the whole country knows it. Everyone knows it. Those who believe the country does not know it will be enlightened, I hope, before long, and will realize that boss control, especially of the judiciary...
...Litvinoff- "definitely European." "An amazing man-big, jovial, affable, shrewd...
Factory of Factories. Secret of Albert Kahn's ability to build factories faster than any other man alive is not primarily an architectural one. It lies in a combination of engineering knowledge and shrewd business organization. Himself a product of the great manufacturing system that grew up in Detroit with the expansion of the modern automobile industry, he has applied the principles of mass production to the art of architecture. His Detroit offices, now running on a feverish schedule, are a veritable factory of factory design...
Weekly Pay: $45. Albert Kahn's personality still reflects that curious mixture of shrewd materialism and esthetic refinement that has made him the prototype of the machine-age architect. Methodical in his working hours, he gets to the office early every morning, drives himself incessantly until evening. Each week he solemnly accepts the weekly paycheck of $45 which he has been getting for the past 40 years, carefully turning over $40 of it to his wife and keeping $5 for "lunches and extras...
...Francisco's 1934 dock strike West coast shippers-and then the whole U.S.-suddenly became aware of a gaunt, nervous man who talked with a cockney-like accent and abrupt gestures. He was fast gaining power over organized U.S. longshoremen. Australian-born Harry Bridges was wary, shrewd, and almost telepathically able to guess shipowners' moves before they were made. He led longshoremen with a dictatorial hand, rose to be named West Coast C.I.O. chief...