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...Feder's monetary views were radically opposed to those of Hitler's financial wizard, Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. In 1934 Feder was "temporarily" retired on half pay. Thereafter he pottered about with city planning...
...Batchelor. Her managing editor, 39-year-old Harold A. Davis, came from the Daily News, as did several Newsday reporters. In the last elections she borrowed the Daily News idea of a "Battle Page."* Her biggest help came from the Daily News's late great promotion wizard, Max Annenberg. Max coached her on all the tricks of the trade, got her a general manager, William Mapel, ex-managing editor of the Wilmington (Del.) Morning News and Journal-Every Evening, regretted he could not also give her Daily News features because their territory overlapped...
...alimony they pay. Dropped once, the measure is due to reappear. Camel-lipped Character George Arliss appeared before the Lord Mayor of London, was fined $18,000 for not registering with the Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed. On parole from the pen where he had been sent for hornswoggling Philippine Railway investors, once-affluent William Buckner said he was busted, that his wife Adelaide Moffett, blue-blooded songstress, is paying their $800-a-month...
...Argentina last week scientists had discovered a new child prodigy, a nine-year-old chemical wizard named Jorge Fernández...
Neatly rigged to permit Benny & friends to triumph, the Jell-O quiz was repeated this week. Posing as a nine-year-old wizard on a quiz board composed of William Shakespeare, aged 6, Isaac Newton, 7, Lady Godiva, 6, and Fred Allen, 8, Benny made a great to-do about coaxing the Quiz Kids into telling him what sort of questions he will be asked when he shows up on their show later. As guest of the Quiz Kids, Benny will be primed on gags but not on questions...