Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City in 1931. By that deal Transamerica became National City's biggest stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National City board of directors, where they still sit. Thus the idea that A. P. was marching eastward again, a periodic rumor, was slightly absurd, because A. P. still had a heavy, if minority, stake in the East. His new stake in Chicago banking is even more of a minority stake because 15,000 of Continental represents only a 1% interest...
Berlin's Caesar had just explicitly promised Rome's Caesar by air message that he will "never" seek to obtain any soil which is Italian today, and the Führer's entourage quickly denied the "Tyrol is Free" rumor, also started half-hourly broadcasts warning Nazis significantly not to make unauthorized arrests or seizures of property. Nazi boys & girls at this time were swarming aboard railway trains at every stop, importantly demanding to be shown everyone's passport, but travelers who refused these Nazi moppets were not harmed, though fists were shaken in their faces...
Bernard De Voto '18 will return to Cambridge to live next fall, according to a rumor steadily gaining credence in the College. Last month he resigned the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature, a position he had held since he quit Harvard...
Unlike Japan, censorship in the U.S.S.R. is a very real factor. The approved method of gathering news, Hindmarsh said, is for a foreign correspondent to take a brief "rumor story" relayed to him from his home office, expand it into a long "dispatch," and take it down to the censor. If he approves it, the correspondent throws it away. If he disapproves, the correspondent knows the rumor is true. If he merely mumbles, the reporter has to guess...
...rumor has been circulated around Harvard that a popular English instructor who resigned about a year ago desires to return. If this is true, and if the University refuses to accept him, it will be one more example of letting wheat slip through the chaff. Because some day in the future the world may spotlight this man and Harvard try to persuade him to join the flock; then one of its worst attitudes will simply be perpetuated...