Word: shrewd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This problem is the relationship in foreign fields of the State Department's diplomatic and consular representatives and the Commerce Department's commercial attaches. As Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hoover greatly multiplied these commercial attaches and raised them to a new plane of importance. He picked shrewd men who knew U. S. business and sent them forth to scout the world for new markets. Inevitably they have clashed with the regular foreign service men, producing keen rivalry...
Matches. A shrewd bargainer is Swedish Match Co. To obtain exclusive match concessions, it has lent money, bought securities from many impoverished governments. But Swedish Match is interested in matches, not money. And Swedish Match has an active and able financing company in the form of Kreuger & Toll Co., largest stockholder in Swedish Match, headed by Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger (TIME, Oct. 1). Last week, therefore, through a syndicate headed by Lee, Higginson & Co., Kreuger & Toll offered $50,000,000 debentures to acquire securities now owned by potent Swedish Match...
...substituted garish Bohemian cushions for frail gilt chairs, substituted brusque moderns for précieux. In "memories of a world that has passed" she reconstructs her London music room; then peoples it with musicians-Thibaud, Rubinstein, Ysaye-and with listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write a book, contents herself instead with a few pages; ''With a labouring that began stirring in the soles of his feet and worked up with Gargantuan travail through his knees and weighty abdomen to his heaving breast...
...incidental sketches of herself are quite as shrewd and quite as flattering. She says that Carl Van Vechten thought she should dress "very simply, in black, no headdress at all, no earrings, nothing but her own strange face." He raged at Robert Edmond Jones for jeopardizing his dramatic tastes by approving her passion for ''dressing up" in gaudy turbans and flaming ospreys...
...Thomas James Garland, Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Philadelphia, is a shrewd, hard worker, not without a sense of humor. Born in Ireland, he has lived in Pennsylvania more than a quarter-century. His long toil in the vineyard has thinned and dried him. His diocese is wealthy...