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...Assistant Secretary of the Navy inherited none of the inventive genius of the Wizard of Menlo Park, but he did inherit his father's prodigious capacity for work. Since he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1913, Son Charles has met the business problems of the numerous Edison enterprises as energetically as his famed father attacked technical problems in the laboratory. Frequently he could be found in his grey-walled office in West Orange for 17 hours at a stretch. He had his first opportunity to become acquainted with the U. S. Navy and his new chief during...
...under the Great Extemporizer, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Last April, when the Nazi radicals had been working up for several months within the Party a campaign to force dismissal of Dr. Schacht, General Göring abruptly took Germany's fiscal wizard under his hulking personal protection, and last week Adolf Hitler erected this state of affairs into a German institution with imposing trappings. Another reason for Göring's appointment to rule the economy of Germany was that as a soldier he will be deaf to any policy...
...entrance exams, and didn't write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...
...scrappy middleweights now in training for the Battle of the Decade are Ethiopia, the Champion who won at Adowa in 1896, and Italy, the Challenger now set for a spectacular comeback. Last week the New York Herald Tribune finally succeeded in placing a word wizard in each training camp and printed their dispatches prizefightwise daily in adjoining columns...
...cuttings, his nail parings, his spittle and his excrement lest these things which remain a vital part of him fall into hostile hands. More abstruse forms of wizardry he claims to know nothing about, pointing out reasonably that if he knew how they were performed he would be a wizard himself...