Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would mean an unscheduled loss of tax revenue. Smathers had a strong hunch that the President meant to let it die by pocket veto. But Smathers also knew that he had the votes to override any veto-so long as Congress stayed in session. He therefore fought a shrewd delaying action against adjournment-and Kennedy finally signed the measure...
Died. Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman...
...government either a long or particularly happy life. This week the Prime Minister will again need the votes of the Social Crediters to defeat a Liberal challenge of his handling of the austerity program-which Social Credit leaders have vigorously damned. But whatever troubles lay ahead, John Diefenbaker. a shrewd and canny politician, had shown in the first crucial week that he had the combination to survive where it counted-in the final vote...
...specific virtues as a solid and much needed piece of work in nineteenth century American history, Professor Taylor's book can be recommended for the example it gives of just such an attempt at patient and thorough examination. In their own day, the rival conceptions of the shrewd, hard-trading, thick-skinned Yankee, and the landed, generous, sensitive Cavalier were much more than the propaganda cliches to which they have declined since; for, as Professor Taylor shows, it is the desperation with which educated Southerners sought to make this vocabulary come alive, and embody the South whose death they believed...
Owner of a 400-acre hog-and-cattle farm near Rea, Mo., Staley, 39, directs the N.F.O. with evangelistic fervor and a shrewd eye. When the Committee for Economic Development issued a report in July saying that the number...