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...Moreover, he was planning for his Detroit plant a new wide strip sheet mill, which is an appallingly expensive aggregation of machinery. Upshot was that by December Steelman Weir and his two top executives frequently darkened the Kuhn, Loeb doors. With some inaccuracy, they were called "the three wisemen of Weirton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kuhn, Loeb at Work | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Weir. National Steel was merger of Steelman Weir's Weirton Steel (which lacked adequate ore reserves), Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. (which had them) and Great Lakes Steel, whose plants were right at the back door of the automobile industry. Mr. Weir's fellow wisemen were George Humphrey of M. A. Hanna, who is now National Steel's executive committee chairman, and George R. Fink of Great Lakes Steel,, who is now National's president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kuhn, Loeb at Work | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Gresham's Law: bad money drives out good. Colonel Ayres's point: economic ignoramuses may drive out economic wisemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hard, Soft & Red | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...Ante de los Reges Magos" in its original state is but a fragment. It gives the ritualistic material through the meeting of the Wisemen and Herod with free and strikingly intellectual treatment. More than any other prote type it resembles the Orleans Epiphany play, a late ritualistic drama, written, of course, in Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB TO GIVE ANNUAL MIRACLE PLAY | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

Once against the wisemen of Brussels said there was nothing for it but dissolution of Parliament and a new general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Cabinet Crisis | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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