Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father invariably arose at 5 or 6 a.m. to make his private devotions and go to Holy Communion, taking his son with him from an early age. He also had a lively interest in spooks, visited haunted castles, collected accounts of ghosts, of startling dreams, of premonitions which came true. After his death-at the age of 94-his son dutifully prepared his father's ghost stories for publication. In the U. S. they were printed in Hearst's Sunday supplement, the American Weekly...
...bank crisis of 1930-33 some 37 Philadelphia banks, with deposits of $110,000,000, gave up the ghost. One bank which squeaked by was Integrity Trust Co., witt $47,240,000 of deposits (1931). Integrity, with its assets badly frozen in real estate, was probably saved because it had its crisis before most others...
...Sept. 10 rose from 5? to as much as 10? in some stores. Result: Franklin Roosevelt made an example of sugar, removed the quotas controlling production and importation, effectively reduced the sugar price to about its pre-war level. Last week, the emergency passed and the ghost of 1915-20's sugar shortage laid, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed new sugar quotas-a trifle smaller than 1939's-for the year...
...Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Leningrad Soviet, who had once called Comrade Stalin the "greatest leader of all times and all nations," 117 persons were known to have been put to death. That started the fiercest empire-wide purge of modern times. Thousands were executed with only a ghost of a trial. Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they were all the same. Comrade Stalin recognized their function when, one day, he viewed that part of the walls of the Kremlin...