Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Massachusetts' lean, shrewd Governor Leverett Saltonstall, for whom a 1948 Presidential boomlet has already begun, made an appointment last week likely to win him friends everywhere. To the chairmanship of the State Board of Parole he named Matthew W. Bullock, 63, onetime Dartmouth track and football star, tall, broad of shoulder and coal black...
...General Chen is a veteran of Kuomintang campaigns against warlords and Communists. But of all Kuomintang generals, he is generally regarded as persona gratissima with the Communists. A realist who is perfectly sure of his own democratic political faith, he gets along easily with Chou Enlai, Yenan's shrewd emissary who last week was back in Chungking...
...Popular Front. Shortly after war was declared, Thorez left France, was convicted of desertion from the French Army in 1939. Now his return was expected soon. In Paris, Thorez will sit as one of the 14 Communist delegates* in the Assembly, give the powerful French Left shrewd leadership...
Evergreen State. In war-boomed Washington the G.O.P.'s square-jawed Governor Arthur B. Langlie went out. In went the Democratic's shrewd, poker-playing U.S. Senator (and Truman committeeman) Mon C. Wallgren...
...take a hint next time from some shrewd fellows like Dan Phillips or Bob Shepherd and bring your happiness cast instead of going west yourself. Don welcomed his fiancee, Miss Beth Bidwell, and her mother to old Boston last Saturday. The second thing Beth did was to remark how much Boston reminds her of San Francisco...