Word: wizards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...utility system since it went into bankruptcy two years ago. The plan: creation of a new grandfather holding company to liquidate the present parent companies and eventually distribute the shares of the operating companies to the security holders. Its proposer: Henry A. Stix, once Hopson's corporate accounting wizard, who turned State's evidence at Hopson's trial, and so impressed prosecutor Hugh Fulton that he helped get Stix several jobs with the Government...
Along with these men, who may well be lost to Dick Harlow next fall, several other players on which the Crimson pigskin wizard was relying will not be showing up next full. Dave Goldthwalte, Johnny Page, Ray Guild, and Tommy Shattuck, added to these named above, will almost certainly be missing. One bright sport on the horizon is the announcement by Don Forte, next year's captain, yesterday, that be definitely will be back...
...mine for practically nothing. German generals, quiet and scholarly, would talk here of their old campaigns and think up new ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...
Henry Ford threatened legal action against the Ku Klux Klan unless they stopped reprinting in pamphlets anti-Semitic articles from Ford's old Dearborn Independent. Through his attorney he pointed out to Imperial Wizard James A. Colescott that he had retracted the articles in 1928. Wizard Colescott said the Klan had stopped circulating the pamphlets the day war was declared...
...wing monoplane dropped on Croydon Aerodrome, London, in a landing which Aeroplane described as "the bounceless plop of a mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls and their bouquets, paid tribute to Pilot...