Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn from the Conference! She is afraid it will try to stop her war with Bolivia" (TIME, July...
...Vive Herriot!" cried scores of deputies when the loose-skinned leader appeared in the Chamber last week for the first time since his illness. When President Lebrun asked him to form a Cabinet he refused amid a buzz of Paris rumor that "Herriot will accept about...
Something of great import to all Cuba leaked out of President Roosevelt's Warm Springs swimming pool last week: able Ambassador Sumner Welles, known to be antipathetic to the Grau San Martin regime, was about to be withdrawn. By midnight the rumor became certainty with an official announcement from the President. Ambassador Welles was to be succeeded by Assistant Secretary of State Jefferson Caffery. But. as a direct snub to the Grau Government, Mr. Welles was to return to Havana for a brief period, still U. S. Ambassador. When Mr. Caffery succeeds him it will be as an unofficial...
...Last week the Boston Transcript reported that President Angell will retire "probably on or about his 66th birthday in 1935," may be succeeded by the university's Provost, Historian Charles Seymour, 48, author of The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. In New Haven, this rumor was dismissed with the firm expectation that President Angell would continue active for at least four years...
...Once, nearly caught in the act by his royal rival, Churchill jumped featly out of the Duchess's bedroom window. ''Delighted with his daring and address, she presented him with ?5.000." Biographer Churchill admits his ancestor took the cash but weighs carefully the often-repeated rumor that canny John, instead of blowing in these sinful wages, salted them away as the first deposit toward his future fortune. When he met the beauteous Sarah Jennings, although neither of them had enough money, John snapped his fingers at prudence and married her. A character in her own right...