Word: legerdemain
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Dissents. The dissenting members jeered long & loud. Said the four labor members (who had held out for a general 10?-an-hour raise): ". . . a piece of legerdemain which has no relation to any demonstrable facts...
Labor members made no effort to hide their delight. Industrialist members, stunned by the President's legerdemain (some privately characterized his action in plainer language), finally gathered wits and declared: "[We] accept the President's direction. ..." Stating their conviction that the closed shop was "the most highly controversial and emotional question in industrial relations today," they therefore appealed to labor, in effect, not to press the issue while...
...been started, 44% were behind schedule, only 26% were on schedule, 8% were ahead of schedule, and 3% were completed. By Feb. 21, his chart read: 5% not started, 23% behind schedule, 54% on schedule, 10% ahead of schedule, 8% completed. Some of this improvement was paper legerdemain: original, over-optimistic schedules had been revised, deadlines for completing some camps had been advanced to more realistic dates. But the Army undoubtedly had learned a lot on the job, by last week was pulling itself out of the hole...
...accumulated deficit, little more than $500,000 would have been left to run the city government in 1939. The emergency was met then by hocking the city gas works to the RFC, obtaining a $41,000,000 loan and clearing the slate of past deficits. But sacrificed by this legerdemain was $4,200,000 a year for 20 years to come which the city would have realized from renting its gas works to the operating company...
...apparently worth more, so Harvard decided to value them at an increased figure on its books. Now changing business conditions, and perhaps the accounting policies of a new Treasurer, have showed it advisable to return to the more conservative valuations of the pre-1930 period. In all this accounting legerdemain, there has been no change in real value which would not have taken place regardless of the mark-up in book value...