Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large number of Andover athletes coming to Harvard with the class of 1937 so alarmed Yale authorities, according to rumor, that special emissaries were sent up from New Haven to investigate the reason for this shift of traditional sympathies...
...capital was more completely paralyzed every day as fewer and fewer shopkeepers opened their doors. The dreaded Porra, President Machado's secret terror squads, odious for their savage murders, boasted of the massacres early in the week when hundreds of joyous citizens, shouting a false rumor "Machado is out!" rushed prematurely toward the Presidential Palace where scores were quickly mowed down by a merciless fusillade...
...station: "Make these August strikes the August Revolution!" Ambassador Welles, after keeping completely mum through a long series of conferences with President Machado, finally said, "The situation is so grave that it is impossible to forecast what may develop." Ambassador Welles was correct. Few days later on a false rumor that President Machado had resigned, all Havana went wild with joy. Huge crowds poured into the streets in celebration. The police poured lead into the crowds. Dozens were killed, some around the capitol, some near the President's Palace, some before Sloppy Joe's famed saloon. Hospitals were...
...Lithuanian flyers Stephan Darius and Stanley Girenas, who flashed across public consciousness so briefly that few people could repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
...that some traders, not knowing how deep a fall might be in progress, dumped stocks as a safety measure. Stop-loss orders and impaired margins dumped still bigger quantifies of shares into the maelstrom. Not since 1929 had the market had such a day or such a three-days. Rumor ran wild: the Exchange was going to close; speculators were jumping out of windows; President Roosevelt had had an apoplectic stroke the night before; he had died at noon and was being laid out in the White House! Then a little hope came back, prices rallied, but the net fall...