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...Rumania, where the Royal Family have never been rated wealthy enough to keep a $1,350,000 yacht, much less buy one, His Majesty's purchase of the Nahlin came last week as a crashing fact to back up years of rumor that "Mme Lupescu is the shrewdest money-maker in Rumania." She is said to have got her working capital from people who wanted things wheedled out of Carol II, later was reported branching out into Bucharest real estate, finally to have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw...
...envious" of Germany's increased Brazilian trade, was trying to spoil Brazil's German cotton market by forcing Brazilians to pay higher prices for their industrial imports. Significantly the Fiihrer appointed as Brazilian Ambassador Dr. Karl Ritter, foreign trade specialist and one of the Reich's shrewdest diplomats...
...Shrewdest of all were the advertising directors of United Kingdom Tobacco Co., makers of "Grey's" cigarets, a somewhat swank but inexpensive brand. In 48 hours London newspapers appeared with quarter and half-page advertisements flaunting largely the company's new slogan: "The Fleet is All Lit Up!" And in small type below the explanation: "They're smoking Grey's cigarets." Abashed Commander Woodrooffe explained: "I was so overcome by the occasion that I burst into tears and found I could say no more." To be sure that announcers would not be overcome with emotion...
Until the invention of photography, the shrewdest observer of horses in motion was a self-taught British sporting painter named George Stubbs. For eight years he studied the anatomy of the horse, dissecting carcasses, hanging articulated skeletons from the ceiling to move the legs with ropes. His Anatomy of the Horse, published in 1766, is a landmark in veterinary medicine as well as in art. But in his pictures, many of which were in last week's show, his hunters still galloped in the traditional hobbyhorse attitude, with all four feet fully extended...
Never before had observers seen Franklin Roosevelt go so earnestly to bat for anything. It was an omen that the beginnings of the Supreme Court battle (see col. 2) were but a mild foretaste of what is yet to come. To those who believe Franklin Roosevelt is the shrewdest judge of political trends in the U. S. it meant also that the outcome of the battle is more uncertain than that of any which the New Deal has yet fought...