Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh from the factory, 500-wagon-red, self-propelled combines drove north with the wheat harvest last week. The roving harvest brigade was big news on the farm front. Backer of the idea was Joseph M. Tucker, shrewd U.S. vice president of Canada's largest farm-machinery manufacturers, Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. Tucker sold the War Food Administration and the Canadian Government on the idea of allocating to Massey-Harris enough engines and steel to build 500 of the self-propelled combines (see cut). The one condition: that Massey-Harris would sell the machines to operators who would agree...
...found a spot in Billy Rose's raucous show at the Fort Worth Texas Centennial, and another at Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair. His comeback was rapid. He is a confessed millionaire, many of whose investments are under the shrewd thumb of Joseph P. Kennedy, but he has never taken himself too seriously. "Success," Morton Downey says, "has gone to my hips...
...Time for Politics. Not many mouthfuls were down when Rosenman began by reminding Wallace that both he and Harold thought he was a great man; that he had done a great job in many ways. The Vice President, who is shrewd as well as stubborn, knew what was coming. Shyly he looked down at his plate. But Henry, said Sammy, in effect, there's an awful lot of opposition to you, and well, it looks now as though you might be something of a political liability to the President...
...studded with the names of radicals, movie stars, authors and liberals of all shades that ranged from George Norris to Paul Robeson.* Partly the reason for this was to get around the Smith-Connally Act by having the new committee collect and disburse contributions. Partly the reason was that shrewd Sidney Hillman, looking ahead, wants to get a broader base for his party than labor unions-just as the British Labor Party gradually came to include peers and peeresses, from Lady Noel-Buxton to the late Lord Wedgewood...
...chief of the Army Ground Forces, shrewd, small Lieut. General Lesley James McNair, could go overseas. Last week the Army announced that he had received his orders...