Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the rumor persisted that the Metropolitan was so hard hit financially that it might have to curtail its present season or disband in the spring. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, some said, resigned as board chairman this autumn because he was tired of playing patron. But people who believed that knew little of the Metropolitan's workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis...
...Prince Constantine of Greece. In 1913 her father-in-law was assassinated and she became queen. Denounced as an intriguer for Germany during the War, she was driven from Greece with her husband in 1917. A year later when Constantine was reported near death from an old wound, rumor spread that she had stabbed him. In 1920 King Constantine was restored to his throne. Two years later she again fled with him to Italy. There she watched him die. while her son. King George II, ruled Greece for a year before he too was dethroned. The rest of her life...
...streets with the news that Germany had served notice that at the next Reparations conference, scheduled for Jan. 25 at Lausanne, Germany would announce that she could pay no more Reparations. Who was responsible for the leak no one knew. No sooner was it published than the rumor was authenticated, first by Chancellor Bruning, then by the British Foreign Office...
Last week the rumor was confirmed. Atlas became by purchase the largest holder of Goldman Sachs stock. Made clear, however, was the fact that control is not involved, that management of the trust will still be in the hands of Goldman, Sachs & Co., seller of none of its shares. It was thought, however, that eventually Atlas will make some offer to minority Goldman Sachs holders, will eventually either control or absorb the latter company. Net assets of the two would total $160.000,000, making it the largest investment trust in the world. The Atlas stock came from the open market...
Today, Chicago's collapse is so complete that its school-teachers are faced with the ironical prospect of taking a reduction in a salary which is not being payed to them anyway. The police force is still retained at full pay, but rumor has it that they may well be disbanded. There is not much left to steal. The crooks are gradually being driven from the city by starvation. Occasionally children in the grade schools faint from hunger...