Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There have been rumors that the University will tear down the house and build new classrooms, but University Hall stated that this was not probable because of lack of money. A better founded rumor is that the house will be used as a home b the Dean of Freshmen since all the first year men now live in the Yard...
...Terror hung in a red haze over Cuba last week, the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Dictator Gerardo Machado detonated to an end. Dead were 20, all youths under 25. Cubans had so often seen the fantastic in murder that last week they believed every atrocious rumor whispered in an alleyway. But many a missing student had merely burrowed into hiding. Police walked the streets of Havana in pairs, carbines crooked under their arms. Newspapers were firmly gagged,* except the Administration's Heraldo de Cuba which growled: "The arm of popular will cannot be the bomb...
...Persona grata" to the Government, he was at once marked by anti-Machado Cubans as the catalytic that may somehow purge Cuba of Terror. They believed that Dictator Machado did not know last week where he stands with the U. S. Many wanted to believe the rumor that Machado is all packed, ready to flee Cuba and the thousand vendettas that have been sworn against...
While Ford was dickering to sell his credit company, rumor last week had it that he was also dickering to sell his steel mills at River Rouge to U. S. Steel Corp. which has no Detroit plant. Formerly U. S. Steel's subsidiary, Carnegie Steel, with a plant at Duquesne, Pa., supplied about three quarters of General Motors requirements. Now National Steel has a plant in Detroit which with the advantage of short hauls on short notice has been able to capture much of the automobile demand. Partly in consequence National Steel has been better off than all other...
...George Bell. In the early days of Nazism, Dr. Bell was, with the notorious Count de Moulin Eckhardt, one of the intimates of the perverted Storm Troop Leader Capt. Ernst Roehm (TIME, March 20). While still in Nazi good graces he went to London" called according to rumor by Sir Henri Deterding who was currying favor with Adolf Hitler in the hope of winning oil contracts for Royal Dutch-Shell. Later came a break with Capt. Roehm. Dr. Bell was accused of being a traitor to the party, of printing Nazi secrets in a Munich Catholic paper...