Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monetary policy and the threat of inflation. When the government in those eras definitely settled the policies in favor of sound money, confidence was immediately established and an expanding industry paved the way to recovery and prosperity. It is this same uncertainty which paralyzes business today. It is this ghost of inflation which hovers over financial circles and prevents a restoration of confidence. As Dr. Kemmerer ably pointed out. It is the federal deficit which constitutes the chief threat of inflation. As long as the government continues its policy of lavish expenditures, as long as a glittering flood of gold...
...pageant to the tune of $3,000. Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
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Said Bishop Warren L. Rogers of Ohio, visiting at swank St. Bartholomew's: "It hasn't a ghost of a chance...
...doubters began looking around for a successor. Most of them favored Brother Bolden, onetime president of Los Angeles' Realty Owners Association. But they reckoned without Brother Edward. He emerged from the colony swimming pool one morning, announced that he had seen a vision. The ghost of Brother Isaiah had appeared, said he was still running the colony, would deliver his orders through Brother Edward. Twenty-six "Immortals" bowed to the revelation. Four teen skeptics suspended judgment while a committee visited the grave to look for signs of an upheaval, found the long furrows undisturbed...