Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left the orchestra, that Toscanini had heard and resented it; that he (Mengelberg) resented not having been invited to conduct the Philharmonic in any of its European concerts this spring (TIME, July 15). Mengelberg performances this...
...conditions warrant." A month ago Madrid cafes buzzed with gossip that the King was about to demand the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera as Prime Minister and appoint that elegant grandee, the Duke of Alba, in his place (TIME, Dec. 2). Dictator Primo de Rivera quashed the rumor, sternly announced that the present dictatorship would continue "indefinitely." King Alfonso was not amused. Fortnight ago when the Prime Minister presented his Cabinet's program for the coming year, King Alfonso astounded observers by refusing to ratify it at once, said that he would "think it over...
...confirmation of a rumor circulated over two months ago it was announced at University Hall yesterday that Professor P. A. Sorokin, Professor of Sociology, at the University of Minnesota, has become associated with the Faculty of Harvard College. He will assume his new duties at Harvard next September...
Sinclair. Current rumors concerning Harry Ford Sinclair's Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. have been: 1) will merge with Prairie Oil & Gas; 2) will merge or become affiliated with the oil interests of its bankers, Bancamerica-Blair Co.; 3) is being bought in the open market by one of the Standard Oil group. Last week to this trio was added another rumor: 4) will acquire Rio Grande Oil Co., producing in Southern California and Texas, operating service stations in these states and New Mexico and Arizona. If Rumor No. 4 is true it will be Sinclair's debut...
...Chicago. In Chicago's Fronton are signs "No betting allowed.'' Near them is where bets (called "contributions"' to make them legal) are placed. Alarmed by the rumor that 27 penniless bettors had committed suicide in one week in Havana, the State's Attorney of Cook County once tried with no success to have jai alai banned. Usual odds-on favorite for individual bets is Domingo Ugalde, called "The Fox" because of the sly cuts, curves, angles, backspins he knows how to use. He began playing when he was nine in Marianao, Cuba. He speaks broken...