Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumania, where the Royal Family have never been rated wealthy enough to keep a $1,350,000 yacht, much less buy one, His Majesty's purchase of the Nahlin came last week as a crashing fact to back up years of rumor that "Mme Lupescu is the shrewdest money-maker in Rumania." She is said to have got her working capital from people who wanted things wheedled out of Carol II, later was reported branching out into Bucharest real estate, finally to have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw...
...appeal these cases to Hell and back!" Lawyer Liebowitz had shouted. Courthouse rumor last week was that Alabama's Governor would commute Negro Norris' sentence to life imprisonment, the other sentences would not be appealed, the Scottsboro Case would end. Yet notice of appeal had already been filed for Negro Norris and plans to free the others were hatching...
...this spring John Montague, according to Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram, was the most discussed golfer in the U. S. Reams had been written about him in newspapers and magazines. A rumor that he would play in the British Open made headlines in London. One of the latest Montague stories was that a match was being arranged between him and Socialite Thomas Suffern Tailer Jr. at Meadow Brook Club on Long Island for $10,000 a side. Last week locker rooms were full of gossip about this match that would finally reveal the truth about John Montague...
...make his own way in the world. What neither she nor the young man know is that Ball Sr. is the hotel owner's chief creditor and that she has been invited to live there because the proprietor of the hat shop (Franklin Pangborn) has spread the rumor that she is J. B. Ball's mistress. In Easy Living this situation serves under Mitchell Leisen's adroit direction as the framework for one of the season's silliest and most entertaining farces which reaches its climax when Mary Smith invades J. B. Ball's Broad...
...Willever, had dictated that in some cities each company should maintain its offices far enough from the other's to prevent ''dilution of business." Any notion that this could form the basis of an anti-trust action, Mr. Willever said, was as silly as the rumor that Western Union and Postal might merge (TIME, July 5). In Washington Department of Justice officials called the story "quite premature...