Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelmina failed to name a fiance, the Swedish press heard that the name is "Sigvard"-i. e. Prince Sigvard Oscar Frederick, Duke of Uppland, second son of Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf by his first wife, the late Princess Margaret Victoria, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. This potent rumor neither the Swedish nor Dutch would officially confirm last week...
...picture has been removed from its position and authorities were non-commital except to the extent of confirming the rumor. It is believed that the portrait was irredeemably damaged, but the only definite statement from officials indicated that steps were being taken to prevent a repetition of the destruction...
...Menjou left Hollywood for France, his somewhat abrupt disappearance from the top flight of film stars was attributed to his inability to make sound pictures. But others said that he had left because his ideas about his salary, temperamentally expressed, had finally tired the Paramount company. Certainly the first rumor is contradicted by what he does here. It is a dialog picture made completely in French for foreign export-an adaptation of the film released in the U. S. as Slightly Scarlet, with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Menjou's voice is as suave as his pantomime...
...litmus was red indeed. The Almirante Gran's officers stopped saluting and arrested little Leguia. Back in Callao harbor, a U. S. physician, Dr. McCormack, visited the sick man three times, announced that contrary to current rumor the patient was "neither dead nor dying." The Junta's President Sanchez Cerro thundered that "Tyrant" Leguia "must be made to account for his acts," ordered Augusto Leguia and son Juan imprisoned in the island fortress of San Lorenzo, bastille of Peru's political prisoners. Peruvians thrilled at a typically Latin touch: jailer-to-be of ex-President Leguia, commander of the guard...
Standard Oil of New Jersey. For some reason especially persistent has been the rumor that Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey will lend Spain $100,000,000 at no interest in return for the oil monopoly. Last week Spain "gave assurance" that it has been made no such offer, and Standard's Walter Clark Teagle, in London, said the story was "made out of whole cloth...