Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rumor had it that Senator Borah came to say to the President on behalf of several western Senators- Mr. McNary, Mr. Stanfield, Mr. Oddie, Mr. Cameron-that Mr. Work would have to retire if the Republicans were to carry the West in 1926. But this Mr. Borah denied, saying "that he urged only a modification of Government policy...
...President Little is himself if rumor may be trusted, a shining example of the importance of not neglecting the 85 per cent he now wishes to get rid of. With his abilities he would undoubtedly by now be a multimillionaire if he had been denied entrance to college. Instead, he passed most of his four college years with no thought of academic distinction, until chance rather than intention on his own part, threw him under the spell of a teacher who inspired him with an abiding passion to find out certain things. Today, as president of the Michigan University, with...
...note in the press this day rumor of your resignation from Cabinet as Secretary of Treasury. Do hope this is true, as your resignation will relieve me of a conviction that has been on my mind for some time, and the reported speech of Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania recently intensified the conviction to all but the point of action, namely: To make it my life effort to assassinate you for good of the world, because of the aid and comfort you have given to the most de- structive, dastardly and wicked institution on earth...
...according to press reports, a new syndicate is being formed in which the house of Morgan is to take a prominent part. The syndicate is said to be for five years, and to undertake control of the output of all the important South African diamond fields. If this rumor is true, U. S. capital will invade a business formerly preempted by the British. But control of the business, it is said, will not pass to Manhattan but remain in London...
...heat, to discuss if they cared to, in a general way, the program for next winter; and especially not to report oftener than once in two weeks that Secretary Weeks had resigned or was about to resign-which the President has several times denied-not to indulge in this rumor too often, if for no other reason, for the sake of the feelings of Mr. Weeks, who is recovering from a serious illness...