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Not even the stately halls of the world's largest banks are free from corporate ghosts. For almost a year one of them has lurked disturbingly in the recesses of Chase National Bank. Were it articulate this ghost might well have slid into the offices of Governor Albert Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Large Ghost Laid | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Twice the Rineharts have lived in a haunted house. Stoutly asserting a disbelief in ghosts, Mrs. Rinehart gives unvarnished but spooky facts about bells ringing, furniture moving, queer sounds, queer sights.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Career Mother* | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Neither has the system tended to diminish the jollity of college life. If anything, it has increased it. They say in the Navy, "A strict ship is a happy ship", and a student at Rollins soon discovers that the definitely required study periods, with their inescapable exactments, leave him at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peripatetic Diplomatist | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Coincidentally last week there rose at Covent Garden a ghost of another description. Seats had been taken out of the auditorium. Jazzman Herman Darewski (composer of "Whispering," "K-K-Katy") was playing for a ball, when suddenly he noticed his drummer drop his sticks, stare goggle-eyed into space. Darewski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ghosts in a Garden | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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