Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks by some of the toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect it he had the assistance of an artful knife-wielder named Billy Hill...
...anonymous artist plainly forgot himself and what little he may have known of artistic conventions the moment Dame Pollard's basilisk stare fell upon him. He painted her neither as a tender dream, like Margaret Gibbs, nor as a fleshly reality, like Thomas Smith, but as an apparition. Shrewd as J. P. Morgan, straight as Queen Victoria, she rises out of the night, holding her book like a scepter. The ancient well merited her haunting memorial. One of Boston's original settlers, she bore twelve children, kept a tavern and lived to be 105, surviving...
...residents on or asking for relief. Then two major oil companies opened big refineries in the area, and Anacortes was suddenly riding the biggest boom in its history, But the town took it in smooth stride the usual headaches of sudden expansion averted by shrewd, bureau-directed advance planning...
...Chicago, Illinois National Committeeman, longtime power in state and national politics, the man who successfully plotted the course to Stevenson's 1952 nomination. Though Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley now marshals Illinois convention votes, Arvey will be tapped at convention, time as another elder statesman and shrewd strategist...
...appointment of Political Diplomat Seaton (see box) to the politically hot Interior post was as shrewd as it was surprising. Ever since 1953, some Democratic politicians have been shouting against the "giveaway" policies of the Eisenhower Administration's Department of the Interior, chiefly because the department has emphasized private and local, rather than federal development of natural resources. After Secretary Douglas McKay resigned in mid-April to run against Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, it was clear that some U.S. Senate Democrats, e.g., Oregon's Richard Neuberger, would fight confirmation of McKay's Under Secretary...