Word: baselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relations came to the fore in another quarter of the week's news when the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., opened its discussions. In halting English, Peter A. Bogdanov, board chairman of Amtorg, complained that his agency suffered from "a certain lack of confidence created by the many baseless rumors regarding economic conditions in the Soviet Union and the recent unwarranted attacks on the Amtorg." He repeated his warning that if U. S. financing conditions for Russian trade continued "unsatisfactory," Soviet purchasers would shift their business from...
...credit position. The accusations against the company have undoubtedly harmed its reputation with some firms. The further development and even the continuance of Soviet-American trade will be an almost impossible task unless the accusations against the company are . . . as we confidently expect them to be, found to be baseless...
This story, baseless and stupid though it might be, was subtly undermining the prestige and influence of the Farm Board in the cotton belt...
...john's college a failure and insinuated that the University of Wisconsin authorities had determined to abandon the test school. Recent reports from Madison including Professor Meikle john's own statement on the work of the school since its establishment in 1927, however, brand the rumors of failure as baseless. Far from not being a success, the college which makes a point of studying civilizations rather than the usual curriculum will continue its work. Professor Meikle john is particularly pleased with the solution of the first year study and is hopeful for a proper working out of the details...
...Abraham Lincoln which has bred gossip of kinship between the two. Such report is based largely on the fact that Lincoln and Davis were born eight months apart, within 100 miles of each other in Kentucky. Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue...