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...they were agreed on a 14-point statement, an optimistic charter expressing their agreement on a broad use of federal power in cooperation with the states, to promote the U.S. economic and social welfare. Wrote Scripps-Howard's Tom Stokes: "He [Dewey] buried, once and for all, the ghost of old-fashioned states' rights." For the agreement forged at St. Louis called for continuing, in the main, all the federal services to which the New Deal has accustomed the people...
...Canterville Ghost (M.G.M.) is a tub of ectoplasm (Charles Laughton) whose cowardice, in a bygone century, caused his brave old father to wall him up in the family castle. The unhappy ghost was doomed to walk the night until some male Canterville should give a good account of himself in battle. But throughout Britain's embattled history, Cantervilles left only a trail of white feathers...
...Ghost Walks. The crisis passed...
Mussolini was saved. But somehow the world never forgot the crime. From time to time Matteotti's ghost, started up to haunt Mussolini. From time to time people involved in the murder talked. But they never really told anything. Nevertheless there was a perennial rumor that the Corriere Italiano's editor Filippelli (who has since dropped out of sight) had written a full confession. Only one photostated copy of the confession existed...
...Ghost Talks. Filippelli confessed...