Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through good management. Because others were bidding against him, he paid fancy prices for almost every share he bought. And then, with well-publicized high-pressure campaigns, he sold them to the public, retaining voting control. Many buyers were poor, many were Insull utility customers who thought their operating wizard could do no wrong. But Insull built his pyramid on the erroneous theory that it did not matter how much anyone paid for his stock so long as he was running the show. In 1929 the pyramid was shaken by the market crash. That it did not topple then...
Samuel Isaac Krieger arrived in the U. S. from Germany some ten years ago, self-billed as a mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment...
Captain Skiddy von Stade, seven-goal wizard who spent last fall in South America matching mallets with Argentine's best, will lead a team on to the hard packed surface of the Commonwealth Armory in Boston Saturday night for the Yale game which has one convincing victory over the Eli's already behind...
...legislative counsel to the House of Representatives, Middleton Beaman. A shy, caustic genius, he has spent two decades trying to keep one jump ahead of the collective brains of the nation's ablest tax lawyers. Between Drafter Beaman and the lay members of the inner circle stands another wizard. Tax Expert Lovell H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Wizard Parker has the all important job of calculating how much revenue a tax will yield, whom it will affect and how. Great is the respect in which the average Congressman holds...
...election to a law-creating body by promising to repeal a law every day of his term in office Here was a public display of a widely held opinion which is expressed in Middletown by "There are too dammed many laws in this country." Governor Quinn, the Wizard of West Warwick and Walter O'Hara, the Pawtucket Flash concur in this opinion, for according to Professor Chafee these two bulls have locked horns in, of all places, the china shop of the legal system, and they have broken most of the china...