Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father: How the summer house he had rented at Rye Beach, N. H. had been badly damaged by fire three days before while his wife was out to lunch; how the presence of a secret service man to guard his family in his absence had caused the kidnapping rumor. But James was present not only on family affairs. Before rushing out to buy a suit of oilskins for his father he made a mental note that the President was eating cereal, toast and orange juice, information that he made use of later that day in writing a syndicated press dispatch...
Last week the story of Dr. Dewing's resignation broke through the screen of rumor. He had withdrawn gold before the bank holiday, not for his personal account, but as president of Chatham Water Co., to protect a construction contract which the company had undertaken. He redeposited the gold immediately after the bank holiday ended. Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School criticized his act as having made the School subject to possible public criticism, objected to his criticisms of Administration policies. Hence Dr. Dewing's resignation. Since Dr. Dewing was guilty of no lawless hoarding, some...
President Machado's private gunboat, the S. S. Juan Brunozay, was in Havana Harbor last week with steam up. Sailors were very busy about the deck. The rumor flashed through Havana that Gerardo Machado was about to skip the country. President Machado thereupon broke a silence of many months by inviting U. S. correspondents to the Presidential Palace to hear a statement. His sallow, pocked face broke into a friendly grin as he insisted that he had not the slightest intention of either resigning or running away...
...Germany. Dollfuss does not want the National Socialists (Nazis); he can count on the Christian Socialist (government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such a uniform, besides snubbing Germany, would remind Hungarians that they had once...
...boost to Chinese morale was the energetically spread rumor that Germany's crack Drillmaster General Hans von Seeckt ("the man with the iron mask and the monocle") was coming to train Chinese armies. The old Junker who organized the Reichswehr. happened to be on a world tour of the Far Kast last week. Before he left Berlin he had left blanket denials that he was going anywhere to drill anybody...