Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor that there would be a change in departmental policy establishing a reading period in Economics A was declared false by Professor H. H. Burbank in an interview yesterday...
...Canadian Marconi was being quoted at $27, Sir Joseph's tow Opinion of -the stock shocked Marconi speculators. Dropping perpendicularly at a speed that left the ticker far behind, Canadian Marconi dove to 15½ before trading in it was suspended. The stock had been riding on a rumor that Radio Corp. of America was planning to absorb Canadian Marconi. Sir Joseph's $3 estimate virtually flattened this story; thus the bottom dropped out of Marconi. Upon resumption of trading, Canadian Marconi continued to decline. It reopened at n|, dropped...
...than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size...
...year, unfavorable weather conditions brought down the national crop to a bare sufficiency for Russia's own grain needs. There were even scareheads in the U. S. press, last fortnight, that the Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade...
...released at the Locker Building after the workout. The official spokesman of the Athletic Association announced that there was another demonstration of Yale plays, followed by a signal drill for Teams A and B. No inkling as to the makeup of these two combinations could be gleaned, but a rumor was current that the first eleven is substantially the same as that which has carried Harvard hopes in the encounters so far this fall...