Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain that the man was Crown Prince Umberto. Actually he was a grey-haired Italian banker, Signor Nardi Beltrami. The woman soon became Cinemactress Jeannette MacDonald-actually she was the banker's mistress, one Signorina Lodigiani. When banker & mistress recovered sufficiently to slip away to parts unknown, journalistic rumor ran riot, especially in France. The story now was, is, that Jeannette MacDonald was injured not in an auto accident but by Crown Princess Maria Jose. In French papers the ideal set for such jealous pistol work is, a hotel bedroom on the glamorous Riviera...
...York Stock Exchange. Performing in a spectacular manner, that great market once again proved its world leadership. There were cheers when United States Steel again crossed par, a triumphant return from the recent nadir of $831. Twenty-six leading stocks gained $4,159,000,000 in value. Bullish rumors ran wild; there were tales of tremendous pools being formed, huge mergers in the making. Concrete bullish news, in addition to the moratorium, was the favorable decision to Radio Corp. (see p. 12), the raising of the wholesale cigaret price, the declaration of the regular dividends by Westinghouse, Anaconda, Baltimore & Ohio...
...Poughkeepsie Columbia was the favorite. Columbia had won its early season sprint races so easily. But there was a rumor that the boat had gone stale. Cornell, with baldheaded, 30-year-old Pete McManus in the waist of the shell and seven other heavy, experienced men bending to the barks of big-voiced little Coxswain Burke, had a splendid chance. Syracuse, with six veterans and the lightest crew in the race, was in the outside lane, least protected from the wind. Washington, having beaten California, seemed to be the best of the three Western crews. Wisconsin rows only...
...they had made arrangements to buy Author Philip Barry's stage success Tomorrow and Tomorrow to be made into Cinemactress Chatterton's next talkie, stated that there had been no change in the situation since the agreement last spring. Warner Bros, officials refused to comment on the rumor...
...David Lawrence, smart talker & writer, publisher of the United States Daily. The Daily, which he financed by personally raising a vast sum of money from 72 "sponsors," has shown no signs of prospering. In the Post negotiations the names of Eugene Meyer and Bernard Baruch were mentioned by rumor as backers. But why David Lawrence wanted the Post was not made clear...