Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bainton, a popular music teacher in the Boston schools. It was not long before Neville had Miss Bainton lending her name to The Bainton Associates, Inc., which purported to be an investment trust paying 25% returns monthly. Hypnotic, honest-looking Neville convinced his clients that as a Wall Street wizard he could make this profit possible by trading their money in stocks. Mr. Neville further convinced everyone of his good faith by marrying Miss Bainton's niece...
Yaleman Mason appeared to have been merely the tool of Yaleman Garland, who was known among his unsavory associates as "The Wizard." The first Garland wizardry was promotion of Automatic Signal Corp. to make his patented traffic light. Among the original investors were two du Fonts, Charles Michael Schwab, who served for a time as a director, and old Economist Fisher, who sank no less than $750,000 in the enterprise. Automatic Signal is still a going concern with Mr. Fisher trying to get his money back as board chairman...
Postmaster General & Democratic Chairman James A. Farley has been readying to leave Washington for months, and last week his right-hand man, Democratic Executive Director Emil Hurja, announced that he would soon be leaving, too. Famed as a wizard of political analysis after calling the turn in the 1932 and 1934 election's. Statistician Hurja was outdone by his boss last November when he guessed only 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt, against "General" Farley's bull's-eye 523. But that was no more reason for one to leave than for the other to stay. Their Washington...
...used to wonder what went on inside the handsome, white-columned mansion which stands at Peachtree Road and Wesley Avenue in the city's swankest district. Everyone knew it was the "Imperial Palace" of the Ku Klux Klan and that in it labored Hiram Wesley Evans, the Imperial Wizard and all-American antiPope...
...recognized as the best Ski-meister in the Alps, Hannes Schneider was hired as leading man in the German Film The Wonders of Skiing. The picture popularized skiing in Central Europe, made Hannes Schneider grand wizard of all Europe's ski wizards. Back in St. Anton, he opened his Arlberg school. First month he had 100 pupils. The next month he had 200. The St. Anton natives he had taught free were useful to Skimeister Schneider. He hired them as associate professors. By 1925, Hannes Schneider's Arlberg Ski School was winter headquarters for most of Europe...