Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this "cradleland of the human race." But when the backwash of inquiries engulfed the town of Vadnagar, local authorities called the story a hoax, either the work of a practical joker or, as the Associated Press found, "the result of an old Hindu superstition that spreading a false rumor sometimes aids toward solving a domestic problem...
Chamberlain of Birmingham punctured the ballooning rumor that David Lloyd George was about to be given a Cabinet portfolio by National Government in an effort to get the votes he is drumming up by his loud "New Deal" proposals to restore British prosperity by lavish public works (TIME, Jan. 28). Coldly, simply, Chancellor Chamberlain said: "The policy of providing public works always fails, and our past experience in this respect has been no different from that of other countries which have tried...
...admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered to us in the event of war with Germany...
...last minute last week, however, Atlantic City's Mayor Bacharach blasted the rumor that he had commissioned Earl Carroll to uniform his police...
...Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego their week end is met either with a freezing stare or the suave, stock British excuse: "Impossible, I am afraid. In Paris, yes. But in London even a rumor that the Cabinet may find it necessary to break their week end upsets the City...