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Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes...
Unhappy Ending. Behind this glossy exterior of success, decay eats away at Portugal. Financial Wizard Salazar has not balanced the budgets of Portuguese families. Food prices have nearly doubled since 1939. One typical family with a monthly income of 1,200 escudos in May paid out 1,663 escudos for rent, food, clothing, water and light. Strictly controlled wages lag far behind. Government workers, especially important to a dictatorship, got a 25% increase in 1944 to meet a 112% rise in the retail price index...
...move into offices adjoining the bank.) First business was to elect Belgium's Camille Gutt (pronounced gut) the $30,000-a-year managing director -and half the Bank-Fund team. A small man with arched eyebrows and an engagingly informal manner, he has proved to be a financial wizard...
...ring et al. were rooting for the prosecution. They smiled and nodded every time their accuser, Robert H. Jackson, scored a point. The wizard who produced this strange turnabout was Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
Bolger, to be sure, is a pretty great fellow, and seems an even greater one by contrast-fair as a star when only one is shining in a show. He repeats his floppy Wizard of Oz scarecrow dance; he wickedly burlesques ballroom dancers; and in the show's and the season's most fetching solo act, he does a perfect soft-shoe routine while poking delightful...