Word: magician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite his personal limitations, Mr. Hoover's periodic cracks at the Administration supply a valuable part of the campaign strategy. By directing public attention to the gyrations of "the Magician" and his band of "white rabbits", Mr. Hoover puts his finger on the issues on which the campaign will be fought. Though the Supreme court has relieved the Democrats of the hopeless task of defending the NRA and AAA, there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which...
With University Hall issuing reports from every conceivable officer with magician-like rapidity, and with the Presidential campaign beating the gun and running wild, editorial candidates for the CRIMSON, will have no trouble in selecting topics for their daily offerings...
...finance the two and one-half billion dollar payment. It has occured to some few souls that the money must be raised by taxation, either deferred or immediate, but such persons are not to be found in Congress or the lobbying headquarters of the American Legion. Even the reputed magician in charge of the Treasury has openly expressed skepticism as to the means and probable facility of raising the money...
Dark of eye and square of jaw, effective William Esty is an amateur magician. He has a profound knowledge of the human hunger for health and wellbeing, having been gassed while behind an A. E. F. machine gun. This experience, plus his instinct for broad-gauge ballyhoo, has made him a modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop...
Arrested last week, Besson accepted fate stoically. But no sooner was he arraigned before the magistrate than friends produced as from a magician's hat a full pardon-signed by Albert Lebrun, President of France...