Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass meeting held by Germany's four major parties (Social Democrats, Communists, Liberal Democrats and Christian Democrats) in Berlin's British sector, shrewd, grey Communist Leader Wilhelm Pieck called for national unity and informed the Nazi small fry that they were welcome as comrades. Said he: "We call on all the little members of the former Nazi party who committed no crimes . . . penitent, nominal Nazis. . . ." Among the three thousand people who jammed Berlin's massive, prison-like Radio Building, there were cries of: "We want no Nazis...
...more than luck went into the making of Miguel. Hard worker, shrewd opportunist, Alemán was always quick to see the lay of the land. As a student he specialized in worker-protection laws when such legislation was only a gleam in the revolutionary eye. When Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance...
Julius Renter's monopoly, fattening on low cable rates, brought him power, fortune, a baronetcy from his native Germany. His son's suicide in 1915 ended the dynasty and brought Reuters up against a crisis. While it wobbled, shrewd, sparrowlike Roderick Jones, a Reuter man from South Africa, stepped in and bought up the shares. As Britain's propaganda minister in World War I, he won a knighthood, saw that his agency toed the empire line...
...when racial antagonisms made the district doubly grim, Chicago's shrewd, liberal Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil marshaled his stockyard priests to help a new-established Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council fight them down. Soon Bishop Sheil and his aides had playgrounds and young people's clubs going in place of gang fights. The Catholic Church now plays a major role in determining the sentiment of the district-the factor which, in the long run, may well determine the outcome of the dispute. But the Church has rivals: last week, while Catholic priests tramped with the U.P.W.A...
...Hands. With his new broom, Young Henry brought in other new ideas. Shrewd enough to realize that there was a lot about automaking that he did not know, he set up a policy committee to supply him with the answers. On the cornmittee are: Labor-Relations Expert John Bugas, onetime director of the FBI's Detroit office and now the company's No. 2 policymaker; black-haired, gruff Mead L. Bricker, the production boss who "saved" Willow Run; John R. Davis, the cheerful, shrewd boss of sales and advertising; pint-sized R. H. McCarroll, now executive engineer...