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...choices were sound by any standard, and politically shrewd. Murphy had resigned in a huff last year as an assistant U.S. district attorney, after he was passed over repeatedly when promotions were made; Republicans gibed that Truman did not want to reward the man who had put Alger Hiss in prison. Now, apparently, things were all patched...
...ended up a special agent for the War Trade Board), Weinberg became a securities trader. In seven years he had enough money ($104,000) to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1927 became a partner in Goldman, Sachs. As Weinberg's fame as a shrewd judge of stocks and men spread through the Street, so did his influence. He became director of more than a dozen corporations, including such giants as Sears, Roebuck, B. F. Goodrich, Cluett, Peabody, Continental Can, and General Foods. When World War II began, he was drafted as a dollar...
Perhaps when the gentlemen of the U. of P. and N.C.A.A. and the E.C.A.C. have succeeded in determining a price policy for the new gridiron industry, they will raise a glass to the memories of the days when football was a game, played for fun. If they are not shrewd and diligent, it will be a hollow gesture...
...falls down. It has page after page of far from sprightly text on the activities of myriad teams and organizations; far too little about who was in those organizations. This policy carries over to its pictures. The "firing squad" photographs of groups shoulder-to-shoulder are largely gone, a shrewd move esthetically but a bad one for a scrapbook: it will seriously reduce the book's reference and grandchild value. When 315 does break down and run a firing squad, the names of the people are carefully omitted...
...extremely shrewd cloakroom politician, Mossadeq set to work forming a political instrument of his own. With eight other deputies from Teheran, he founded the National Front Party. Incredible as it might seem by Western standards, these nine men were able, in a matter of months, to control Iran's 136-member Parliament. They could do it because Mossadeq is one of the few men in Iran who know or care anything about political organization. Except for the Communists, there are no political parties in Iran; most politicians are merely after all they can get by and for themselves...