Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen who went scurrying off into the bush on a bandit chase...
Last week the rumor was reversed thus: Publisher Curtis might buy the Sun if financial arrangements could be made to meet the Sun's price of $21,000,000 and merge it with his Post to compete with the newly formed World-Telegram...
...rumor that the New York World was for sale began buzzing on Park Row as early as 1926. But it was denied so convincingly by those in authority that nearly everyone was astonished when rumor burst forth as fact. Had that not occurred, little attention might have been paid a new rumor: that the thriving Sun and struggling Post might merge. First it was said that the Sun would buy Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. That brought this reply from Vice President John Charles Martin, on the office bulletin board last fortnight: ". . . Mr. Curtis has never sold a property after...
Certain sportive Chicago financiers have lately been amusing themselves by trying to circulate fantastic rumors. One story possibly attributable to such a source: that Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick was selling his interest in the Chicago Tribune to Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. and Advertising Man Albert Davis Lasker. The rumor gained wide currency last week because of the recent sale of Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, April 13), but it brought only denials and loud laughter from the principals...
...General Augusto Sandino, who had voluntarily announced suspension of hostilities, was not to blame. But on Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...