Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw, today she has 7,350,000,000 francs at her disposal in a currency worth nearly double what it was. This improvement is due: a) to the daring reforms put into effect by M. Poincaré, recently dubbed "Master of France," who not only has been a financial wizard but virtually a fiscal dictator; and b) to the patience of the people of France...
...youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg, son of a Democratic Congressman from Palestine, Tex., came as a clerk to the Treasury Department seven years ago. He plunged so deeply into tax lore that people began to refer to him as "that Texas tax wizard." When Secretary Mellon needed a wiseman to explain his tax reduction plan to Congressional committees in 1924, he called for Mr. Gregg and said in effect: "Go, young man, to the Capitol and enlighten those grey-heads for me." After the committee hearings, Mr. Gregg sat beside and advised Senator...
...chief guests were Edward Lasker, chess wizard,* and a swarthy gentleman whom he had found in Manhattan, a gentleman with a queer eye and rapt manner, Ascander Khaldah Bey of Egypt. Mr. Khaldah performed some feats for Mr. Rosenwald and his guests that made them not only curious but distinctly uneasy...
Once, in Dallas, Tex., there was a mediocre dentist with ,an eye for business ventures. He joined the Ku Klux Klan; now he is Imperial Wizard; he knows he has money and he thinks he has power...
...last week, it was this Imperial Wizard, Hiram W. Evans, speaking in Atlanta, Ga., who laid down the dictums for his Klan for the next two years. One of them was a doom announcement on the subject of Gov. Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York. Said the Wizard-Dentist: "Georgia will have her revenge in 1928 for the insult furnished at the [1924 Democratic] national convention by the playing of Marching Through...