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Twice in one day Wizard Caillaux waved his wand before the Cabinet. Presto! he produced a budget for 1926. Presto again! he produced a debt mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caillaux and Cabinet | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...always came up to the budget. The receipts from reparations never did. The result was a constant deficit, although the budget apparently balanced. Finally the extraordinary budget was abolished, but it had sunk France so deep in the quagmire of finance that a call had to be made on Wizard Caillauxtion always came up to the budget. The receipts from reparations never did. The result was a consistant deficit, although the budget apparently balanced. Finally the extraordinary budget was abolished, but it had sunk France so deep in the quagmire of finance that a call had to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caillaux and Cabinet | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard, resplendent in purple and gold, smiled and bowed hat in hand as he proudly led some 30,000 to 50,000 Klansmen and Klanswomen down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: K. K. K.: Procession | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...well they might. A native of Detroit, Dr. Scott was for nine years a student and protegé of no less a personage than the late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, wizened wizard of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., in whose laboratory more than once there was manufactured a miniature thunderstorm with artificial lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death Stroke | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...time there was quiet. Suddenly last week Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Klan, directed the Colorado Klan to hold all the Klan's funds and property subject to his orders. This property included a $60,000 interest in a cotton mill. Again a large body of local Klansmen rose up in protest. At a meeting at which Dr. Locke was not present, they turned in their Klan membership cards, and took out membership in "The Minute Men of America,"* an organization which was described as fostering similar ideals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: In Colorado | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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