Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago as 1934 M. Goga was said in Bucharest to have the backing of Benito Mussolini and informed rumor now equips hirr also with the backing of Adolf Hitler. He stands for a Rumania lukewarm to France and ardently Fascist. Few weeks ago he was received by Der Führer, hurried from Germany to the Royal Palace in Bucharest with a "personal message" from Herr Hitler to Carol of Hohenzollern. Few days afterward Rumanian Premier George Tatarescu "reconstructed"' his Cabinet to leave out Titulescu. No European statesman doubted last week that this marked a great shift...
This easy victory evoked a chorus of criticism from U. S. pilots, who credited a rumor that the French Government had spent $1,000,000 in developing Detroyat's speedster. "It just isn't fair," snapped Roscoe Turner, whose injuries kept him from competing, "for a foreign government to trim a bunch of little guys who build airplanes in their backyard...
...been rumored that Red-baiting Congressman Tom Blanton of Texas has a secretary whose name is Marx. Could this rumor be verified...
Every train and plane from the Balkans brought to Britain last week pictures of King Edward looking really happy for the first time since he came to the Throne. Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American...
...June 1928, while visiting in Italy, "A. P." Giannini was reported to have a paralytic stroke. San Francisco rumor had him dead and Bancitaly stock dropped 100 points in three weeks. His frightened right-hand man, Leo Belden, hastily obtained the support of Manhattan bankers at a stiff price. By the time Giannini somewhat recovered, reappeared in Manhattan, he was obliged to put a bold face on his troubles by announcing that he had picked Elisha Walker, head of the old, eminent and sage private banking house of Blair & Co. as his successor. Year later Giannini retired, making Mr. Walker...