Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to a widespread Washington rumor, the laboratories have developed no super-machine for snooping which may be plugged into a light socket. Because the U. S. generally considers wiretapping unsporting, regardless of the purpose, the Bureau uses this very difficult means of detection only on the specific orders of Director Hoover and then only under life-&-death circumstances...
That statement might have ended the matter, save for ulterior gossip because of which a special Governmental com-mission last week kept Dr. Weibel on tenterhooks. The rumor: Dr. Weibel is a Nazi, and therefore a menace to the Austrian Republic. The man who was supposed to be spreading such a tale: Dr. Weibel's assistant and camera-operator, Dr. Preissecker...
...unfit" launched by the Party last week with the news that German Science has produced "a harmless means of sterilizing an already pregnant mother?" Adolf Hitler, according to the Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, was "away in the country." No responsible German would say where. In excited Berlin unconfirmed rumor had the Realmleader cruising among Norwegian fjords, but he escaped the notice of Norwegians. One official was supposed to have visited him in Munich. With his usual intuition Adolf Hitler had quietly effaced himself while the more hard-boiled and intractable of his subordinates eased their pent-up inhibitions last...
Fortune On Manhattan's East Side, a rumor of an uncle who had died six years ago in South Africa leaving a $17,000,000 fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky...
...There have been rumors in the cloak rooms that F. D. is going to 'Renovate' my good friend Jack Garner, to middle-aisle it later with the chinch bug of Chicago [Secretary of the Interior Ickes]. There is nothing to this rumor, my friends, because the alimony would be too high...