Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of the Vice Presidency. We wouldn't need one. If anything happened to Jack, Brother Bobby would fill in, and if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him. Ah-but what if Teddy went too? Well then, we could fall back on that granddaddy of all shrewd operators...
Like Banda, she talked of nationalizing the foreign (mostly British) holdings in banking, insurance companies and plantations, and investors wondered if, unlike shrewd old Banda, she might actually try to put such disastrous ideas into effect...
Died. Edward Francis McGrady, 88, shrewd, head-banging labor-relations expert and strike-settling Government troubleshooter in both world wars, an F.D.R. crony who became a take-charge Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1937 (once provoking Boss Frances Perkins to snort, "Now, now, Mr. McGrady, I'm the Secretary of Labor"); of advanced cerebral artery disease; in Newtonville, Mass. A onetime Harvard College boxing instructor, newspaper pressman, Massachusetts state legislator and A.F.L. Washington lobbyist (1919-33), McGrady left fulltime Government service in 1937 to become an RCA vice president, stayed on as a director until last year...
...apartment and the White House, was probably not spun out of a few creative minds on the eve of its approval by the convention. It is unlikely, for instance, that Nixon asked for a stronger civil rights plank simply because Senator Kennedy selected Senator Johnson as his running mate. Shrewd as Kennedy's choice seems to be, it is hardly enough to panic Nixon so much that he will lose all hope of winning a single Southern state in November. Nixon may have been at a loss for words last spring--but he was inarticulate in an attempt to resist...
...shipping lines and the New York Daily News) since 1955, top man of the triumvirate that replaced the irreplaceable Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of heart disease; in Baie Comeau, Que. A onetime subscription solicitor who spent much of his 39-year Trib career as the paper's shrewd, aggressive advertising manager, Campbell once received a memo from the colonel's walnut-paneled office stating, "We carry a line over the classified ad section reading, 'The Tribune prints more want ads than any other newspaper in America.' Can't we say the world?" Campbell could...