Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salvation, the General indicated, meant also saving China from Soviet Russia. At this, able Soviet Journalist Karl Radek editorialized in Iventis, "Japanese make a mistake if they let their giddiness over successes against China lead them to think Russia would be an equally easy victim." To a Japanese rumor that Russia was on the verge of annexing vast Sinkiang Province in Western China as a Soviet republic, the Soviet news agency Tass spluttered, "Shameful, provocative lies, apparently manufactured by those circles which specialize in forming so-called 'independent governments' in Chinese provinces...
This spree was not without some skulduggery. First insiders spread the false rumor that Italy had quit the League of Nations. Shares zoomed wildly up. When the regular press association cables contradicted this false hope, shares slumped, the shoe-string speculators were sold out and the insiders picked up their 'shares again, having turned a quick profit. Later in the week the rumor mongers tried one along the line that Italy had accepted a League compromise. The short-sellers covered themselves comfortably as the market skidded down, were in a position to get back on the long side when...
needs seemed much nearer fulfillment, needs seemed much nearer fulfillment, when the rumor arose that Franny Lane, brilliant No. 3 back of two seasons ago, would be able to report for practice this week instead of October 1. None of the H. A. A. officials were in town over the weekend to shed any light on the rumor...
...silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally as remote as the moon from wildest overseas speculation, is behind Fat Chaps this time...
...gentle, reserved woman and a devout Catholic, she did not approve of his wild behavior. In 1785, to prove his sincerity, he married her secretly, thus establishing a royal mystery which was not solved until the discovery of the official marriage documents in 1905. The rumor of his marriage spread at a time when anti-Catholic feeling was strong. Through a spokesman in the House of Lords, he publicly denied his marriage. Debts of ?600,000 made him desperate. Mrs. Fitzherbert's rival, Lady Jersey, intrigued to break their relationship. Suddenly the prince abandoned Mrs. Fitzherbert and officially took...