Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January Rev. Julius Arnold Velasco, 31, rector of St. John's Church (Episcopal) of Dayton, Ky., journeyed to Ellicott City, Md. There, by a Catholic priest, he was married to a Catholic girl, blonde Catherine Rogers. Quickly, back in Kentucky, rumor began to spread that Rector Velasco had broken a promise. His ecclesiastical brethren in the diocese of Lexington, Ky., had known of his courtship. Therefore, before his ordination, he had been asked by a committee of the diocese to pledge that in the event of his marrying a Catholic, he would resign his orders. Greatly exercised...
...Manhattan definite announcement confirmed recent rumor: Conductor Willem Mengelberg will not return next season to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, Jan. 27). In London last week it became known that he had been engaged to conduct the London Symphony in 60 concerts, an ambitious orchestral season for Britishers, inspired by the recent visits of the Berlin and Vienna orchestras under Wilhelm Furtwangler, another onetime New York Philharmonic conductor...
President Glenn Frank issued a definite denial of the rumor as it was printed in The Wisconsin State Journal of April...
...ashen remnants of what seemed likely to be the fabulous and diabolical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were unearthed last week near the Dead Sea by the expedition of the Rome Pontifical and Biblical Institute. This startling rumor, tinder to adepts in yellow journalism, was disposed of by the sedate, scrupulous New York Times in three brief paragraphs on an inside page. The headline...
...some time vague rumors have been afloat that seem to add weight to the presumption that there is a law in this country which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors. Rumor also substantiates the claim that in some cases this law has actually been enforced. Whether these preposterous rumors are merely the windblown results of clever journalism or whether there is a porky truth lurking within this hill of beans it is impossible to say Certainly, before the Federal Government forms another sub-committee, it would be wise for all concerned to look into this matter. After...