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...them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers to Mukden's hotels. His red brick headquarters bulged with dossiers on every Kwantung officer and he was known as Manchukuo's "bogey man." In 1937, when General Itagaki was recalled to Japan, General Tojo became Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army...
...this the frumious Mr. Ford had watched. He had listened to paltering discussions of whether to impose wage controls and farm-price controls-two enormous areas which the bill in the first instance ignores, in the second winks at, lest labor and the farmers be outraged. (This bogey had been challenged by Bernard M. Baruch, World War I defense tsar, who declared that the public will support any bill that is uniform in its treatment of all classes and all goods, if the law is fairly and evenly administered...
...editorial page, might even print news instead of ads on the front page, that his new first assistant, blue-eyed, white-haired W. F. Casey, will have a chance to write editorials for readers under 40. The Times has lately plumped for social and economic reforms, exorcised the Red bogey, almost earned title to "Thunderer on the Left...
Bloody Odessa. For five weeks the Rumanians under General Ion Antonescu have laid siege to the Black Sea port of Odessa. Locked within the city, whose present population is 605,000, is part of bogey-mustachioed Marshal Semion Budenny's Southern Army which retreated there after being chased out of Bessarabia last month. They claim to have killed thousands of Antonescu's Rumanians. Every now & then, they say, a placard reading "Cease Fire and Take Away Your Dead" has to be hoisted...
...time he was living in Bournemouth, England, ill with tuberculosis, suffering recurrent hemorrhages of the lungs. Friends could visit him for no more than a quarter-hour at a stretch. One night his wife woke him from a particularly violent nightmare. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale," he told her, and at once began sketching out the story of Jekyll and his evil companion-up to the transformation scene, where he had been awakened...