Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Game Birds in America Inc. Alarming as it was, the statement sounded conservative to U. S. gunners and ammunition makers, already shocked by a rumor spreading throughout the land. The rumor, far graver than those of possible regulatory measures which worried sportsmen last summer (TIME, Aug. 28), was that a Federal ban would next year fall on all duck-shooting...
...Washington the Biological Survey scotched the rumor for the present with a curt. "Absolutely nothing to it.'' But the Survey did admit that such a ban has been threatened for some years, might be discussed next summer. Why it may come was the subject of the More Game Birds report...
...William Gunn Shepherd, 55, famed newspaper correspondent, Collier's staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a rumor that President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had escaped to Texas and Oklahoma, finally reported the story a myth...
...When they captured the airdrome they found it stripped, the planes flown, the water supply poisoned. They chased Prince Bavaradej north into the teak forests. Two days later, Bahol's men captured Prince Sithiporn. They ferreted out two of his lieutenants in a Bangkok temple. A rumor spread that Prince Bavaradej had hopped into a plane and abandoned his troops. But his Royal Highness sent back word that, "My withdrawal is only temporary." The delicacy of King Prajadhipok's position is that he must preserve at least diplomatic relations with his revolting relatives, while in order to keep...
...strength: for a while he joins her roistering household. But he soon has enough of it and goes back to semi-starvation and odd jobs. Annette. who has also had her troubles in Rumania, comes back to Paris and takes a job as secretary to a notorious gutter-journalist; rumor quickly calls her his mistress. Marc avoids her, falls on worse & worse days, finally collapses into dangerous illness. Assia. a Russian girl who lives in the next room, nurses him, sends for Annette, and mother and son are reconciled. When Marc is convalescent he and Assia fall in love. Assia...