Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway Through a Keyhole (Twentieth Century) was the cause of last summer's most widely publicized Hollywood brawl. Gossip that incidents in the picture resembled incidents in the career of Dancer Ruby Keeler caused Miss Keeler's husband, Mammy Singer Al Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once...
...American before or since: a bank with $148,000,000 each of capital and surplus, with over $2,000,000,000 in deposits. Days of trouble followed. Some of Mr. Wiggin's banking clients (Pynchon & Co., Fox Film, German debtors, etc.) had their share of it. Result: the gossip in the market place was not pleasant for Chase officials to listen to. Time came when the Rockefellers felt apparently that the Chase should be run in a far different way. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Rockefeller brother-in-law, who had been president of Equitable, became chairman of Chase. Mr. Wiggin...
...Sell $18,000,000 of bonds at once!" urged Generalissimo Chiang, according to Shanghai gossip. "I must have the money...
...knew the private White House lives of the last ten Presidents so well as Ike Hoover. No loose-lipped gossip could have held his confidential job for 42 years. Once he was offered $50.000 to write his memoirs. He refused, saying: "When I pass out, everything I know goes with...
James Roosevelt's assumption of political power has severely galled State leaders. There has even been talk of a bitter feud between Son James and Senator Walsh. Last week young Mr. Roosevelt attempted to spike such gossip as follows: ''I have a personal genuine affection for Senator Walsh. ... I recognize him as the leader ... in Massachusetts. . . . No effort ... to strain the relations between us will be successful and I am looking forward with keen anticipation to the pleasure of supporting him . . . for reelection...