Word: swart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promoter of these deals is swart, shrewd, analytical Lawrence Mario Giannini, 48-son of famed father Amadeo Peter-who knows plenty about banking, has a vivid industrial imagination to boot. Mario, all but reared in a teller's cage, probably figures that the real future of bankers lies not in shuffling currency and checks but in production-which is not banking...
...gave an inch. The plates were cleared away, the men lit cigars. For nearly four hours they argued. Big Jim and his cohorts held their ground. So did Franklin Roosevelt's men: short, swart Governor Lehman; smooth, tough National Chairman Ed Flynn, a bumbling upstate leader named Terence J. McManus...
Earnest Rex Tugwell is not noted for his tact. Gradually the more formal Puerto Ricans began to grumble at his blunt, abrupt handling of affairs. Sugar interests griped at his close association with swart, spaniel-eyed Luis Muñoz Marín, liberal President of the Senate (who once warned his followers forcefully: "Distrust all politicians-even me''). Officials' wives complained that Mrs. Tugwell was aloof...
When Toscanini left the Philharmonic in 1936, the orchestra was on close competing terms with Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra. Then the Philharmonic pinned its faith on short, swart John Barbirolli, who proved an able welterweight, but no world champ. The Philharmonic went into a slump. Attendance dropped from 86% of capacity to 81%. This season, partly to celebrate its centennial, partly to lift its dwindling prestige, the Philharmonic gave its subscribers a glittering stream of guest conductors. An erratic season, it produced some half-empty houses, but attendance rose...
Pierre Laval, 58, whose swart skin may be traceable to Moorish ancestry, was born twelve miles from Vichy at Chaåteldon, where he now owns an old chateau (see cut, p. 29). His father was the innkeeper, butcher and one-man post office. As a boy, Pierre haggled with his father's customers, was known as a vicious bully...