Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major added that his charge is not expected to resume his post at the Foreign Office for "several months." Rumors are current in London that H. R. H. combats insomnia with white powders, one school of rumor holding that they are ordinary sleeping powders...
...There was little reason to believe that Combustion's total assets, which exceeded $60,000,000 at the end of 1928, have depreciated. Causes of the company's troubles are supposed to have arisen from heavy expenditures in distillation experiments and poor management. According to rumor several oil and utility companies, recognizing Combustion's strategic position, considered merging with it, then withdrew after viewing the involved finances and small amount of actually liquid assets. Significant to Wall Street was the fact that President George Edward Learnard, onetime Boston bookkeeper resigned Dec. 6, four days before the preferred...
...prime G. O. Policy: no government competition against private business. Last week's rumor: private grain commission men in Chicago and Minneapolis were fighting for their economic lives against the Farmers' National Grain Corp. created and largely financed by the Federal Farm Board as a direct cooperative sales agency for grain growers. Last week's development: the Senate Lobby Committee summoned Julius Howland Barnes to tell what, if anything, he knew of a secret widespread movement among private grain commission men to "restrain the Federal Farm Board," to undermine its attempts to establish a quasi-official enterprise...
While amateur boxers jabbed and danced at each other in preliminary bouts, watchers saw a member of the Wales entourage whisper to Playwright Shaw, saw him shake his head. More whispering. The Shavian beard waggled in violent negation. A rumor spread: "Shaw has refused to meet the Prince!" Dinner-jacketed ringsiders were furious. Boos and whistles echoed from the cheaper seats...
Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago. About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael...