Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd, gregarious Pat Hurley had helped smooth out many a rough spot before Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung traveled the road to Chungking. Behind his façade of storytelling joviality he had worked mightily and effectively for better U.S. understanding of Chiang's problems, better Chinese understanding of U.S. aims. Before he left Chungking a fortnight ago, he had received the final farewells of the Generalissimo (in whose residence he had lived for a time) and Madame Chiang. On the whole, Pat Hurley could feel well satisfied that he had accomplished his mission...
Growing Pains. Victor Emanuel, shrewd, farsighted chairman of the $36 million Aviation Corp. that owns 29.6% of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., continued his flight towards diversification. Having purchased Crosley Corp. (TIME, July 2) in June (radios, household appliances), Emanuel last week announced that Aviation Corp. will plunk out over $4,100,000 to buy control of New Idea, Inc., manufacturers of farm machinery and implements...
Since then he has successively been Congressman (14 years), Senator (10 years), Supreme Court Justice (16 months), Economic Stabilizer (8 months), and War Mobilizer (22 months). As a Congressman he learned the ropes on the Appropriations Committee. In the Senate, he became the de facto leader, a shrewd trader who knew the likes and prejudices of his colleagues by heart. He was a Roosevelt-before-Chicago man; he supported the New Deal lock, stock & barrel, except for those measures which clashed with his conservative, Southern-blooded, economic beliefs...
Besides Dunn, the only other member of Ed Stettinius' team whom Byrnes kept in his old job was Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, an ex-cotton broker, millionaire, friend of Jesse Jones, and shrewd economic horse trader currently negotiating postwar loans with the British (see INTERNATIONAL). For Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, he picked barrel-shaped Spruille Braden, who talked tough to the Argentines. For Assistant Secretary in charge of administration he chose 33-year-old Colonel Frank McCarthy, fresh off General Marshall's staff...
Last week, shrewd, poker-faced Harry Ford ("Sinco") Sinclair, 69, President of Sinclair Oil Corp., grabbed it. From Haile Selassie he got a 50-year concession giving him exclusive rights to all the oil he can find in all of Ethiopia's 350,000 square miles...