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Nazi Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schaicht, in the fourth year of an eightyear prison term, lost a fight to spring himself on a habeas corpus writ...
Profitable Paradox. In 1929, T.U.C.'s Ernie Bevin swung the deal that made the Herald the profitable paradox it is today. Bevin sold a 51% interest to Odhams' Press, run by a business wizard named Julius Salter Elias (later Lord Southwood). Elias was willing to let Labor tell him how to sell Socialism, as long as he could tell Labor how to sell papers...
Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also went to restaurants and hotels in the big cities of the world. Said Don Vicente: "No one who eats mole can think of war and death...
...shift showed that the trade unionists had lost and the technocrats had won. Sir Stafford Cripps, who has just eclipsed Herbert Morrison as the No. 1 economic wizard, will have men of the "manager" rather than the "leader" type around him. Apparently, Attlee had decided that Britain's workers would remain politically loyal to the Labor Party even if some of their own men were removed from key spots...
...hero, "Honest Gus" Burgoyne, was born over a saloon and "christened ... in honor of two men, either of whom might have been his father." As a small-town reporter, he learned how to shake down politicians; as city editor, he gained the confidence of the town's financial wizard, then bedded down in the bovine arms of the wizard's only daughter, Flora. "Brilliant things coruscated about her face and hair: flashing dollar signs...