Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, James Aloysius Farley, a political realist and a shrewd observer of trends, said: "I have an uneasy feeling that the belief is spreading that people are not capable of governing themselves; that the problems today are so complex that the citizens at large must of necessity be detached from their own difficulties. The concept of the political elite is growing...
...coverage of Dunkirk and Dieppe was so good that Raymond Daniell, chief of the Times's London Bureau, hired him away. Daniell sent him to North Africa, where Middleton's analysis of the tangled Darlan-Giraud crisis was from the first surprisingly mature and shrewd. His up-front combat stories showed a reportorial eye, a literary...
Born. To Edgar John Bergen, 43, shy-but-shrewd best friend of Charlie McCarthy, and Frances Westerman Bergen, 23, ex-Powers model: their first child, a girl; in Hollywood. Name: Candice. Weight...
...looked like just the sort of strong-willed and hard-headed man to run the Fund with the firm, shrewd hand it needed. As to when the Fund would be ready to begin its currency stabilizing job, Gutt did not say. Washington guessed it would not be until October...
...week dancing and deadlocks alternated. The turning point, perhaps of the whole Conference, came in a small, appropriately smoke-filled Second Empire room of Paris' Luxembourg Palace. Agreement was as far away as ever. Then Jimmy Byrnes, with a shrewd Irish glance at the silent gathering, shrewdly moved that the points of disagreement be summarized and submitted to a 21-power peace conference on June 15, with an acknowledgment that the Big Four had failed to agree. He sat back, winked at Arthur Vandenberg, awaited reactions. For five long minutes-"it seemed like 30," said one witness-nobody spoke...