Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a few days President Truman, a shrewd and practical politician, would be off to meet a shrewd Briton and a practical Russian. It would be his first trip to Europe since he sailed for France as an artillery officer in World...
Potentate Without Power. A shrewd, good-tempered administrator, Will Hays brought to his office (chairman of the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of America) what Moley calls "a political intelligence as remarkable as any that America has produced in the past 25 years." He was to need every...
...journalistic meteor was Kenneth Langley, 16, an auburn-haired, apple-cheeked high-school student. He sold Erwin Canham, the Monitor's shrewd and scholarly editor on a kid's eye report on UN CIO. His column has appeared in the Monitor under such headings as: "Boy Reporter Offers Proof China Will Be Strong Nation." Kenneth got off to a slow start. Racing back & forth between his classes and the Opera House a block away, he filed 500 words of stiff schoolboy prose to Boston every night. Soon Editor Canham offered a suggestion: let the grown-up reporters cover...
...shrewd, witty New Englander, the ninth of ten children, Harold Bowen has had a long and lively career in the Navy. He was chief of its Bureau of Engineering and director of the Naval Research Laboratory before Pearl Harbor. Since then he has been a special assistant and troubleshooter for the Secretary of the Navy, specializing in operating seized, strikebound plants. At 61 he is still one of the youngest, most energetic men in the Navy. Each evening he and his equally energetic wife walk a "fourmile loop in Washington's streets. The Admiral, whose enthusiasms are never halfhearted...
Died. Carl Crow, 61, author, Missouri-born "old China hand" and founder-editor of the Shanghai Evening Post, whose shrewd anecdotal study of the Chinese, Four Hundred Million Customers, the fourth of his 13 books, made best-seller lists in 1937; in Manhattan...