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...remark: "I am sure that such a lecture would be very interesting and well attended. It should also be very entertaining, especially if the man talks the way he writes, for I could make nothing of the scheming waddle that appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON," I'll have the ghost of Hamlet answer this...
...Barcelona, Spain police arrested the husband and mother-in-law of the late Amelia Sangino, charged that Amelia Sangino, ailing, had been frightened to death when her mother-in-law dressed up as a ghost, hovered about her bed while her husband moaned in a room overhead...
Meanwhile there was drawing to a close last week a nation-wide reaffirmation of faith in Jesus Christ and His final command: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...
...Soviet and the League were long the sole anomalies in a world system which was centered around nationalism. Now that the League is little more than a ghost and Russia has discarded her central idea, a startling similarity of national ideals and state structure prevails. Unfortunately, to the disinterested observer, this international uniformity is unpleasantly suggestive only of that which characterizes a madhouse...
...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...