Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year President Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio R.R. was plagued by a ghost- a $63,250,000 mortgage falling due three days before President Roosevelt entered the White House. Biggest railroad maturity of 1933, it could not be refunded because the public would not touch any railroad bonds with a ten-foot pole. So B. & O. offered its bondholders a chance to take one-half of their maturing principal in new bonds, one-half in cash borrowed from the R.F.C. Long before March 1, President Willard knew his plan had succeeded: 99.9 % of the issue had been deposited. Last...
...died two years ago (TIME, March 23. 1931), leaving a $40,000,000 estate to be wrangled over in the courts. Last week Drew Theological Seminary, to which Ella Wendel willed the house & lot, prepared to take possession. The Wendel executors decided that Ella Wendel's ghost would not be offended if Tobey's days, numbered in any case, were painlessly terminated...
Today's generation is beginning to look back on the Victorian Age with a kinder eye than its fathers did. The late Lytton Strachey et al. laid the 19th Century's haunting ghost with many a mocking exorcism; succeeding scholars are now finding a sympathetic task in recreating its soul. A sign of the times, this latest study of Poet-Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his earnest men is a credit not only to its authoress' heart but to her scholarship and her mind. Poor Splendid Wings got the pre-eminence over 800 other...
Jumps. H. E. ("Spud") Manning hugged a 25-lb. sack of flour in his arms when he baled out at 14,000 ft. in one of his famed delayed-opening parachute jumps. His tail of flour against the pale blue sky made him look like a comet's ghost as he plummeted down a full two miles. Not until he was within 1,000 ft. of the ground did he jerk his rip cord, break his 147-111.p.h. fall, soar down to a perfect two-leg landing in midfield...
...There were too many members of the ill-assorted family, when they gathered to lock a skeleton more firmly in a closet; they began to die, one by one. The 'legger-undertaker had five corpses to lay out before an easy-going gentleman-policeman really laid the ghost...