Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm believers in spiritualism and implacable non-believers may not be swayed by anything they read, for persons willing to hear from both camps two new books were at hand last week containing excellent statements pro & con. One author is a Baltimore-born Johns Hopkins psychologist who does his ghost-hunting with affability and scientific guile. The other is an elderly, dead-earnest, British-born spiritualist who has written some 70 books and papers on psychic phenomena, now heads the American Psychical Institute. All that the two books have in common is that both are readably written and each...
...Last week for the first time in the memory of any Washington newshawk a government official publicly acknowledged the aid of a ghost writer. Copies of a speech delivered by Commissioner George C. Mathews rolled off the SEC mimeographs headed: "Prepared by I. N. P. Stokes 2nd and Commissioner Mathews." It was no clerical blunder. The modest Commissioner made a point of asking the publicity department to place ahead of his own the name of the young lawyer who helped him-Isaac Newton Phelps ("Ike") Stokes 2nd, son of Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral and a member...
...Beta Kappa in the Class of 1929. Tall, lean, cerebral, humorless, Ike Stokes later went to Harvard Law School, graduating in time for James McCauley Landis to take him to Washington as his secretary for a year. Now 29, he works in the SEC law department which let him "ghost" temporarily for Commissioner Mathews...
...Samuel Hoare's speech to the House of Commons should allay all doubts as to the eventual solution of the East African crisis. In announcing that under no conditions will Britain use military force against Italian aggression, the Foreign Secretary has laid the ghost of a general European conflict and at the same time demonstrated that the cynical attitude long prevalent at Geneva can eventually overcome even the staunchest souls...
Threatening the very foundation of the American system of university education, one G. H. Smith, Master of Arts, from New York City, is flooding the mails with advertisements. Working under the trademark "Every Man To-Day Has A Ghost", this Smith begins by stating that for a number of years he has been writing book reports, term papers, theses, all kinds of written work for prominent students in eastern colleges. "A well written essay or series of book reports handed in during the early part of the semester smooths the way for the entire year's work." "All 1 need...