Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol rumor: The storage room, tucked off in a nook by itself, was used as a drinking place and general rendezvous by Capitol employes...
Willebrandt v. Hoover? On Capitol Hill, Senator Borah busied himself collecting data to support his charge against the Prohibition enforcement personnel "from top to bottom." Audible at the White House was a rumor that none other than Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with a grudge against the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Mitchell, was supplying Senator Borah with his evidence for further assaults upon the Hoover administration's Dry record...
While terrified Düsseldorf continued in acutest suspense a rumor leaked out that the supershrewd detectives were also sending out "decoy victims" - pretty young women in suits of light, flexible armour with padded steel under their hats, alert guards in the offing...
Germans were saddened by this statement. It killed a popular rumor of long standing that the Fatherland's two greatest shipmasters would pool their resources to build the largest ship in the world. True, Germans built the largest ships of today- the sisters Majestic and Leviathan-which belonged to the Hamburg American Line until seized by the Allies after and during the War. But the French Line now has under construction a ship designed to be bigger than the Leviathan or Majestic, faster than the Bremen, and German hearts are sore that Frenchmen are about to worst them...
Said Vatican rumor: The new papal Secretary of State would be the newly elevated Eugene Cardinal Pacelli, formerly Papal Nuncio to Germany (TIME...