Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House refused to reveal the amount of the Coolidge contribution. The Community Chest officials were tightlipped. But a wicked rumor flew around the capital that the President's check was for "Twenty-five dollars and no cents...
When questioned last night about his plan for the dance, Vogel stated that he would have no committee chosen until the end of next week. He declined to affirm or deny the rumor that a petition for a Boston dance would be presented to the University authorities. He stated that all matters of importance would have to be discussed by the committee and declared that there could be no plans adopted until the committee has studied the various propositions...
...Hoover received another visitor and another Cabinet rumor was dispelled. This caller was U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow. He had come to Belle Isle after a rest cure at Nassau. The short, chipper Ambassador, oft-mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of State, talked for two hours with the President-Elect. Then he all but told newsmen that Mr. Hoover preferred to keep him in Mexico, where the sedative Morrow influence has been worthy and unprecedented...
...significant rumor came from Mr. Hoover. Newsmen asked him whether he would see President-Reject Smith. To the query the President-Elect replied: "By all means I should be glad if Governor Smith has the time to call. I should be most happy...
...Governor Norman has headed the Bank of England for eight years (the pound sterling was down to $3.20 when he took office, is now back to its normal $4.85) his movements arouse rumor, speculation. Financial sharps reported that he intended to visit Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, surmised that the two Governors might discuss some method of preventing further movements of gold from London to New York with out resorting to raising the British bank rate...