Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, John Wesley Snyder endeared him self to all & sundry by his swift cutting of Government red tape, his shrewd spending of some $3 billion of U.S. war money...
...reason for their satisfaction at the end of war work was that shrewd, cantankerous Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, 62, had got a running start on peacetime business. From where he sat, he calculated that he could hold the number of workers at 8,000, and still keep the company operating at a profit on commercial contracts...
Senate Investigator. With a long memory for the waste of World War I, with a veteran's patriotism and a politician's shrewd eye for the main chance, Harry Truman organized the Senate investigating committee which soon bore his name. Overnight, he became the watchdog of the war effort, scourging shortages, prodding production, forcing the manufacturers, the Army & the Navy to toe the mark. By the summer of 1944, Harry Truman had shown that he was playing no political tricks with his committee. The record made him a Vice Presidential possibility...
...speech last month in Chicago he said: "We must not wait for a perfect international plan. . . . We must act, and act promptly. ... As we united in victory, we must unite in peace." His friends predict that in international dealings (i.e., bases, air routes, etc.) he will be a shrewd bargainer, with U.S. interests firmly in mind...
...first things Harry Truman did when he took over the reins of government was to sit down with tired, shrewd Jimmy Byrnes. Only two weeks before, Byrnes had stepped out of his job as "Assistant President...