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...content. Luther Burbank, plant wizard, received Death at 77 without any last minute decision to poultice his scientific philosophy, of life with hope for an after life. They conducted his funeral as he had wished, quietly, privately, with no religious rites - and quoted over him his own words about reaching life's end: "If it has been a good life it has been sufficient. There is no need for another. Once here and gone the human life has served its purpose...
...year to evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...
...renger, as everyone knows, was a member of the ill-fated Caillaux debt mission (TIME, Oct. 5, 12) which set itself a rigid limit of seven days in which to beat down Secretary Mellon's terms, and departed in dudgeon when "Wizard" Caillaux was unable to do much more than exasperate everybody during that period. He took back to France, as everyone knows, only a stopgap U. S. offer to accept $40,000,000 a year for five years as a full discharge on the interest of the French debt for those years. The Painlevé Cabinet, in which...
...Italian debt-funding Commission at dinner, someone brought up for conversation "the personality of Benito Mussolini." It was agreed that he had a genius for organization and then-so the story ran-Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur turned to his neighbor at table, Signor Alberto Pirelli, "financial wizard of Italy," and remarked...
...year ago (TIME, July 28,1924), Wizard Hammond made this demonstration before the Italian Government when he was winding up his deal with Premier Mussolini and the Marconi interests for a joint monopoly of Italian radio. Italy applauded but the inventor came home to perfect his work and offer it for purchase...