Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington. Democrat Albert ("The Rose") Rosellini, 47, faced the thornless prospect of an amenable legislature-Democratic for the first time in twelve years. Shrewd and ambitious, he planted a program (atomic power development, broadened welfare benefits, etc.) that might take new money, but was bound to make new friends for Al the Rose...
...Hall is undoubtedly the best chairman the Republicans have had in a generation: shrewd and eupeptic, confident about his political knowledge. He planned the famous "Salute to Ike" dinners, bringing a fat $4,000,000 into the party's 1956 war chest, then spent half that buying up expensive "prime time" on TV. He never swerved from his conviction that Ike would run again despite heart attack and ileitis operation, thus preventing a unity fracturing scramble for delegate votes. His candidate won by a landslide, but his party failed to capture Congress...
...miner like Nye Bevan or a sidewalk hawker like Herbert Morrison, but his Socialist ideas diverge markedly in some respects from "orthodox" party doctrine. Yet Gaitskell's friends feel that his academic training has done him no harm, because he has been able to combine intelligence and ability with shrewd political skill to navigate his rise through the Party hierarchy...
...Leeds constituents expected the former economics professor to have trouble communicating to his union following. "But to the contrary, he seemed to fit in perfectly," the friend observed, "looking and acting the part more of a traveling salesman than an Oxford don. Gaitskell is a very bright and shrewd man," he continued, "combining all the sharpness of a brilliant, well-trained civil servant with the light touch of a hearty beef-eating Englishman...
...Enemies. Dynamic, shrewd, almost hypnotic in his molasses-smooth manner, Odie Seagraves earned a reputation as "the man who can borrow more money on less collateral than any man in Texas." Along the way, he made-and invariably lost-staggering fortunes, yet always found the backers for still another deal. "Odie," says an awed and envious rival, "can make a hundred enemies and kiss them all good-bye-and go out and make a hundred friends and get a hundred million...