Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shrewd. Germany has no colonies, but an enthusiastic Colonial League. Last week the League held its convention in Vienna. Attending were 25,000 delegates, who roared approval when Reich Colonial Leader General Count Franz von Epp promised that "by incomparably shrewd methods," Herr Hitler would regain the old Imperial colonial empire...
Born 64 years ago on a farm near Knightstown, Ind., wiry, white-haired, amiably skeptical Charles Beard looks like a shrewd Yankee farmer, is really a Hoosier schoolmaster. For the last 20 years he has lived in a big, grey, barnlike house, once a boys' school, on a Connecticut hilltop overlooking the Housatonic River. Part of each winter he usually spends in Washington, D. C., where he visits his good friends, Senator George Norris and Secretary Wallace, keeps a sharp eye on the latest fast moves of legislators. In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them...
Last time the price of copper moved was in October 1938, when it went up, with business hopes. Had purchasing agents been as shrewd as they are tough, they would have finished loading up in July and August when prices were low, instead of waiting until October. As it was, the auto companies had to come back for more when the assembly lines began to roll out the 1939 model in October. They had no choice but to buy at the copper companies' upped price of 11¼? a pound. Fearful that the price might go higher, they then...
...hunting, Texas' Representative Martin ("Un-American") Dies never put on the stand a real, live, current Communist. This was perhaps intentional. Virginia's Representative Clifton ("Economy") Woodrum last week produced a Communist, and with shrewd design...
...House when it voted the President another $100,000,000 for relief. Mr. Woodrum set out to explore the Workers Alliance of America-WPA, unemployed & reliefers' union which claims 400,000 members, of whom 150,000 pay 10? to $1 monthly dues.* Leaders of the Alliance are shrewd, sharp-nosed President David Lasser and shrewd, sharp-nosed Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. Mr. Woodrum put President Lasser on the stand first...