Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen that he had been wise, in the weeks when he alone was on the stump, to get well-planted the broad bases and main points of his positive program. This job was necessary work, but also, to a great many voters, somewhat dull. Dewey's shrewd timing became apparent after Oklahoma City; with his main program staked out, he was now free, in the crucial weeks, to concentrate on the much livelier business of attacking Roosevelt's record-which he described as "terribly...
...haired Courtesan Amber St. Clare makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a schoolmarm-a fact that could scarcely escape Hollywood's attention any more than Macmillan's. On the plausible assumption that Forever Amber might be its biggest smash hit since Gone With the Wind, the shrewd house of Macmillan spent a small fortune ($20,000) on advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling its way into the war-bored minds...
Governor of New York. He was elected governor of New York in 1918. By now he was a shrewd, blunt, humorous campaigner, with an unequaled knowledge of the state's affairs. He was also a great legislative technician with an uncanny ability to rasp out simple, pointed explanations of complicated governmental problems. He battled for slum clearance, set up children's courts, got additional millions for teachers' salaries. He wanted people to enjoy themselves-he took the ban off Sunday baseball...
...Happy Warrior fought back. He traveled the U.S. in a special train with 40 reporters. He never lost his grin; at press conferences he would order: "Throw in the ball, boys, and I'll kick at it." But the shrewd, hoarse eloquence, the administrative abilities that he had, and the support of all liberals, were not enough -the Great Engineer was elected. But now Smith had the fever. He became convinced that next time he would make it. When his old friend Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 nomination by the famed McAdoo-Garner-Hearst deal, Al Smith felt...
...Confused? Almost simultaneously came the counterattack. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, sleepy-looking but shrewd Under Secretary of Commerce, stated that the Department's figures were carefully defined and "reasonably clear and simple." In effect, said Taylor, no one was confusing the figures but the Brookings Institution. Planner Ruml merely looked over his tortoise-shell spectacles, disdainfully, said he "saw no reason" to change his estimates...