Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July VR6AY, Pitcairn Island, informed W21XY, Queens, Long Island, that ships were avoiding Pitcairn because of false rumor of typhoid, and that the islanders needed food and medicines. W21XY (Radio Amateur Dorothy Hall of Queens) got in touch with Manhattan' British Consulate, got help started for Pitcairn (TIME, Aug. 1). Since then she and W2KSZ (Victor DeGhett of Brooklyn) have kept in regular touch with the island...
...Freshmen were supposed to swim Huntington School as a preliminary but this meet has been called off, Huntington has apparently discovered it hasn't got a team, rumor...
...Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment house which "A. P." unloaded in accord with the banking law divorcing underwriting from deposit banking. Such deals have caused rumor that Bancamerica's new Chairman Stewart is merely a Giannini frontman. He is more than that. Born on a Missouri farm in 1881, he made a fortune in San Francisco real estate, has lately majored in mortgages and mines as well as land banks in which he has an investment...
...apparently impregnable position in U. S. headlines, first as the centre of the controversy about whether or not she was married to Charlie Chaplin, then as the centre of the controversy about who would play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Last week the persistent rumor that Paulette Goddard would be Scarlett was again revived, by Roy Howard's World-Telegram and again denied. Cinemaddicts concluded that, since Gone With the Wind has become practically a phantom picture, Paulette as Scarlett would be good casting to type...
...short, it was quite unbelievable when Rumor danced about with news of Hemenway. It would fill a great need, by affording the students an opportunity to exercise without a fifteen-minute walk to the overcrowded Gym. And now come the other tidings, that we have only six of the twelve squash courts, limited hours for basketball, etc. It seems to me that the Crimson is in a unique position to talk up for Harvard's Oliver Twist. J. A. Donovan...