Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrewd question to which few U. S. citizens have an articulate answer. The General Staff of the Army believe that only Britain could invade North or South America, that Germany with all her air fleet could not do so because of her minuscule navy and shortage of transports, that Japan might seize the Philippines but hardly cross the Pacific...
...means certain that Franklin Roosevelt had not outsmarted the House. Correspondents had a shrewd suspicion that he had asked for more than he wanted, that, so doing, he had deliberately given the House a harmless chance to display independence and, if economy should backfire, to take the rap from constituents -all of which might make Congress more tractable later...
Moral. Had Faulkner been content to let The Wild Palms rest with the convict's story, the book might have become a classic of involuntary adventure. It is a pulsing, racing story, a kind of hysterical Huckleberry Finn, its humor at once grotesque and shrewd, its moral at once grim and humane. The convict, with his thoughtless courage, his exasperation at the titanic forces unleashed against him, is Faulkner's most original and attractive character. And the whole book is conceived in the grand manner. Faulkner makes you feel the terrible fragility of man's levees, boats...
...Duce will attempt to turn Mr. Chamberlain's visit into another Munich deal at France's expense. Although Mr. Chamberlain announced as his New Year's resolution that "Great Britain will not make any further concessions to force," many a Frenchman chortled over a disquieting burlesque. Shrewd Henri de Kerillis, independent Rightist Deputy and one of the most influential Rightists opposed to Premier Daladier, wrote for his newspaper, L'Epoque, an imaginary telephone conversation between the Axial partners...
...shrewd old "F. A.," with Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton and Oil Tycoon Edgar B. Davis, formed Ohio Goodyear Securities Co., a personal holding company, one of whose assets was a big block of Goodyear Tire & Rubber common. Cyrus Eaton presently took this Goodyear stock and put it in a new corporation known as Goodyear Shares, Inc., in which F. A. had an equity. In 1930, spotting trouble ahead for Goodyear, he swapped this equity for 64,554 shares of U. S. Rubber Co. common. Bulk of this latter stock, which was charged off to him at $18 a share, next...