Word: legerdemain
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...this sum in a currency backed 81% by gold in exchange for German marks with a gold backing of less than 3%. According to Germans the "monetary patriotism" of Saarlanders equals the rest of their German patriotism, will drive them to enable Adolf Hitler, by a feat of monetary legerdemain, to pay France for the Saar mines with Saar patriots' French francs...
...this new publication, with the aid of the Dow-Jones share index and other financial legerdemain, incomprehensible to the average man, he proves his point, at least to his own quite apparent satisfaction. The following significant passage is taken from the introduction to the booklet...
Uptown Sinclair, peerless knight of things as they ought to be, has by the legerdemain of New Deal psychology, obtained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California, and now, two months later the bonds of the Golden State have decreased one-tenth in market value. Every indication points to the fact that this timidity of capital will continue until election, when, if the former Socialist is elected, it will turn to precipitate flight...
...godfather, through Roosevelt, of the candidacy of Joseph V. McKee, and his scorn, also through Roosevelt, of Dr. O'Brien, pretty thoroughly embarrassing. Possibly the Secretary can slide out from under, but he is a man physically and mentally bulky, and not suited to this kind of legerdemain. And Mr. Curry, we may be sure, will look with unexampled vigilance on the Secretary's patronage list, and additions thereto during the New York campaign. All of which merely reinforces Castor in his previous conclusion that Mr. Roosevelt is getting to feel encumbered by Secretary Farley, who, although he served well...
...WORLD'S FAIR MURDERS-John Ashenhurst-Houghton Mifflin ($2). By a trick of legerdemain, a man murders in view of 10,000 witnesses. A smart young reporter discovers how it was done, and by whom; scores a scoop...