Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President." "The Senator from Louisiana." The large gilt clock over the Vice President's chair stood at 12:17 p. m. as Huey Pierce Long rose at his front-row desk and took the Senate floor last week. Before the chamber was a resolution to keep the ghost of NRA above ground for another nine months. If the resolution were not passed within four days, even that ghost would disappear and President Roosevelt would be left looking sick and silly. In high good spirits, therefore, Senator Long set out to make the President look sick and silly by talking...
...unanimity of the Supreme Court, leaves no doubt as to the legality of the decision. That the N.R.A. was unconstitutional even its most ardent proponents have always believed at the bottom of their hearts. This smashing fall of the guillotine on the head of the bedraggled eagle is the ghost the New Dealers have been seeing in the window from almost the very beginning. One does not have to be an authority on constitutional law to see the complete invalidity of the N.R.A. Not only did Congress delegate legislative powers to the President, but what is more important, it endeavored...
...Ghost...
High spots in the 70-minute program, which Rudy had graciously consented to come out from Boston and voluntarily present the Freshmen, were the rendering of a song, "The Ghost of Dinah," by Ann Graham, platinum girl, the mimicry of Al Bernie, 14-year old boy marvel, and the singing and playing of the leader and the Connecticut Yankees themselves...
...boxes, in the corridors, in the offices backstage and in every dingy dressing-room last week the old Metropolitan Opera House seemed haunted. Over the boxes hovered the ghosts of the old New Yorkers who in 1883 built the Metropolitan, established it as Society's showplace. Great singers long dead seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio...