Word: wizards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Break. Last week Bertram Campbell, now a $50-a-week bookkeeper, was suddenly and dramatically cleared; proved, at last, was the fact that he had not been the forger. The culprit was none other than Alexander D. L. Thiel, the horseplaying, narcotic-spurred wizard of forgery who in some 40 years had left a $500,000 trail of bogus checks over the U.S. (TIME, April...
Died. William Joseph Simmons, 75, indefatigable founder of fraternal orders (Knights of the Kamelia, The White Band), ex-preacher and traveling salesman, fanatical first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, which he helped revive in 1915 and goaded on to a monstrous 4,000,000 membership before he was bought out (for $90,000) in 1923 by Klansman Hiram Davis ; after long illness ; in Atlanta. Wizard Simmons could soft-talk away blood-&-thunder at the drop of a subpoena. He once testified at a Congressional investigation: "Our mask and robe, I say before God, are as innocent...
...Central Communist Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool million, got temporarily suspended. In 1934, Angler Howell reeled in a 956-lb. tuna to cop the world...
...Hjalmar Schacht, onetime wizard Minister of Nazi Economics and President of the Reichsbank. He was discovered in a little Italian village, dapper and professing not to know why he had lost favor with Hitler...
...C.I.O., said the Journal, is a "wizard of public relations." The C.I.O. News's overseas edition, with nearly 100,000 circulation, gets in its aggressive propaganda licks (C.I.O. FIGHTS TO GET VET BACK IN JOB), but sees that the message is "spiced with really clever cartoons, not contentious but just funny." (Apparently, the Journal had half expected the News to class-angle its pinups to the textile shortage.) The Journal's only real criticism was that the C.I.O.'s servicemen's edition seemed to be shy of news about wildcat strikes...