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Word: wizards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feder's monetary views were radically opposed to those of Hitler's financial wizard, Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. In 1934 Feder was "temporarily" retired on half pay. Thereafter he pottered about with city planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Raffendes, Schaffendes | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Batchelor. Her managing editor, 39-year-old Harold A. Davis, came from the Daily News, as did several Newsday reporters. In the last elections she borrowed the Daily News idea of a "Battle Page."* Her biggest help came from the Daily News's late great promotion wizard, Max Annenberg. Max coached her on all the tricks of the trade, got her a general manager, William Mapel, ex-managing editor of the Wilmington (Del.) Morning News and Journal-Every Evening, regretted he could not also give her Daily News features because their territory overlapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daughter v. Father | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Argentina last week scientists had discovered a new child prodigy, a nine-year-old chemical wizard named Jorge Fernández...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Argentine Prodigy | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Neatly rigged to permit Benny & friends to triumph, the Jell-O quiz was repeated this week. Posing as a nine-year-old wizard on a quiz board composed of William Shakespeare, aged 6, Isaac Newton, 7, Lady Godiva, 6, and Fred Allen, 8, Benny made a great to-do about coaxing the Quiz Kids into telling him what sort of questions he will be asked when he shows up on their show later. As guest of the Quiz Kids, Benny will be primed on gags but not on questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Benny & Masterminds | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...long five minutes after the announced change in location the suicide squad had hung Hitler's image from a home-made gallows. As the flames reached their height, more hexters appeared carrying unwilling head wizard, now bound from head to foot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifth Columnists Almost Disrupt Hex Burning of Hitler in Effigy | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

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