Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country had supposed that Foreign Minister Nintchitch* was in close touch with Premier Mussolini, and also that the new Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool. He had pursued a conciliatory policy toward Italy, he signed an accord with Rome last year; and now Signor Mussolini...
...little Cabinet."* Perhaps Mr. Mills merely desires to continue residence at Washington and this Under-Secretaryship was the first opportunity which presented itself; perhaps he is grooming himself to be a future Secretary of the Treasury. But Mr. Mellon, in announcing Mr. Mills's appointment, attempted to forestall rumor by a firm denial of any intent to resign...
...eame, it was too tawdry for use, and Borodin's stock fell momentarily in Chinese eyes. But he has brought much beside an inadequate coffin to China-gold, guns, ammunition, though not so much as is popularly believed. As he sped toward Wuchang with Mrs. Sun a wild rumor was concocted: that this frail, and by Chinese reckoning, beautiful woman would be set up as President of China to keep before the masses the great name: SUN YATSEN. Actually such a development is unthinkable because of the ideas about women prevailing among the unreconstructed Chinese. Mrs. Sun, "Mother...
...brief day last week 44,000 shares changed hands. This is mysterious because only 200,000 Baldwin Locomotive shares exist, and of these only 30,000 to 35,000 are floating on the market. The situation carried the stock from 117 on Nov. 1 to 163% last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain. In the month of November I took orders for four miles of locomotives and my job is to build them.' There was another rumor of a stock market...
...Spang Beauty" CORDELIA CHANTRELL - Meade Minnigerode-Putnam ($2). Among the quaint mysteries that survived the Civil War was that of The Messenger, or as she was later called, the Woman on Horseback, who rode back and forth through the Union lines apparently without the least difficulty and, according to rumor, often to the delight of gallant Union officers. This tale, a thoroughbred love story, purports to be that strange lady's biography...