Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return of Harry .F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, from Europe. To only two questions of reporters did he return positive answers. He said that politics had entered into the investigation and that he had put $45,000,000 into the development of Teapot Dome. Asked about the rumor that there was a $1,000,000 oil slush fund in Washington, he answered: "I haven't heard about that. How much am I supposed to have furnished...
...rumor became current that a Senator had been dealing in Sinclair Oil stock. Senator Davis Elkins, Republican of West Virginia, admitted that he was the Senator in question, saying...
...Gatti, however, Issued a formal statement denying the rumor. He stated that the subject matter of his talk with Mr. Insull was, interestingly enough, the mutual assurance that they would not lure stars from each other...
Upon first consideration the plan suggested by Director Blossom of Yale for an intercollegiate baseball league is appealing, but Major Moore's vigorous denial of the rumor that Harvard would enter such a league is based upon more than a recollection of the unfortunate fate of such an association in 1887. The problem of the increased expense involved in organization of schedules under an intercollegiate league could perhaps be met by raising the price of tickets, which would in turn probably necessitate a discarding of the present plan of admission to games on Soldiers Field by H. A. A. books...
King Alfonso and Primo are good friends. The King said that he had saved the country from a civil war by appointing Primo Dictator of Spain. Primo said he was teaching Spain how to govern herself properly. Yet, rumor follows rumor, as one drop of rain follows another, that all is not well in Spain...