Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applied himself and his staff to the relocation of labor, the rehabilitation of ghost towns, vocational training, a youth program. At the C. I. 0. convention he vowed that by next year the U. S. will have licked unemployment. To Labor, angry at seeing defense contracts go to industries which have allegedly violated the Wagner Act, he pleaded for patience: "My God! . . . Those things have gone on for years. . . . Give us a chance...
...Kyser's effort is a thoroughly delightful, Ghost-Broken mixture of jitters, giggles, and jives, as "You'll Find...
When William Allen White recently said, "any talk of a stalemate victory that leaves Hitler in control of Europe is appeasement and thereby treason to world democracy," he touched on the dilemma which American faces today. The simple, brutal fact is this: there is not a ghost of a chance that England, alone, can break Germany's stranglehold on the continent of Europe. The best we can hope for is a "stalemate victory...
...property he sells, works on a commission basis under contract to banks and companies that do. Prosperous, soft-tongued, he convinces purchasers his towns are not so decadent as they seem. Believing that prosperity will bring some new company to Pattontown, he advertised "this is not a ghost town-mine operations will resume at an early date." Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may make sense...
...Francisco Franco. The two strolled along a regal carpet, and behind them trailed dignitaries galore-Franco's brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, recently made Foreign Minister after a visit to Berlin and Rome; Foreign Minister Ribbentrop; Field Marshals Brauchitsch and Keitel; significantly, the ghost writer of Hitler's pacts, Dr. Friedrich Gaus, and many other wearers of braid and jack boots...