Richie Phillips, a boisterous, street-shrewd lawyer who quintupled the salaries of major league baseball umpires as their union representative, then caused many of them to lose their jobs by having them resign en masse, died Friday at his home in Cape May, N.J.
Writ large, Wall Street's shrewd ways may be unfairly clipping investors for billions of dollars.
Those are precisely the circumstances confronting Morgan Stanley Group Inc., one of Wall Street's shrewdest deal makers.
Lefèvre follows the life and times of Larry Livingston, a fictitious name for Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street's shrewdest traders.
Well, halfway through the announcement, as socialist MPs were shrieking and moaning and covering their mouths and generally behaving like melodramatic Latin American soccer players in the penalty box, one of Fleet Street's shrewder political commentators turned to me in the parliamentary press gallery and said, "If that lot are complaining, the government must be doing the right thing".
"He's an intelligent player and he looks like he is a shrewd street player because he creates something always in unexpected situations.
His savvy was such that Roosevelt wanted to make him Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and his grasp of the intricacies of Wall Street was so shrewd that his phone never stopped ringing.
A shrewd street politician, he was able to maintain his elected role of chairman of the Conservative finance committee, and was a skilful fundraiser whose value was recognised even by Edward Heath.
I will say this: he's incredibly shrewd, incredibly street smart.
It is an attempt to fuse a subscription model with one supported by advertising.The Wall Street Journal takes a shrewd route to a similar destination.
This means that, if you're a shrewd gambler, street craps can conceivably be more lucrative than casino craps.
