Word: legerdemain
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...well as America's allies that the President actually is concerned about their carping on the war. This is a pretty difficult chore, but why else would a Supreme Court Justice step down to the U.N. post unless it was a matter of the highest national urgency--and legerdemain...
Finley's hallmark is his verbal legerdemain...
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 -- Only parliamentary legerdemain today kept proponents of a volunteer army from taking control of the concluding session of the draft conference here...
Irksome though he finds it to be party to such legerdemain, Fannie Mae's taciturn president, J. Stanley Baughman, explains simply: "We do what we have to do." Pittsburgh-born Baughman, an up-through-the-ranks federal careerist since 1933, made his mark among mortgage men by turning the depression-born Home Owners' Loan Corp. from a money loser into a profit maker. Taking over Fannie Mae in 1950, he tightened up loose operating procedures, chopped his staff while the work load doubled, won a reputation as an administrator who could say no without ruffling too many tempers...
...turn to a tax increase -a move that up to now the Administration has insisted it is not seriously considering. Come what may, the budget that President Johnson finally sends to Congress on Jan. 25 will be the largest in history, a fact that no amount of budgetmanship or legerdemain will be able to disguise...