Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor that Doheny had employed Mr. Colby at one time was denied through Mr. Doheny's attorney-"never in his life did he employ or offer to employ Bainbridge Colby or any member of any firm with which Mr. Colby was connected...
...Gossip is mere tittle-tattle, does not spread very much. Rumor I regard as something that grows, that spreads, that comes so it is repeated not by idle tittle-tales, but by responsible people who may not know?and in this case no one professed to know what the facts were, but the rumor passed on. It was a substantial rumor." Thus did Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, describe rumor before the Senate Committee on Public Lands...
...denied absolutely that his remarks about "a certain paper" had been statements of fact. He declared they bad been given as reports of a rumor, in the hope that that rumor would be arrested and slain by investigation. He did not know that the Senate Public Lands Committee had been advised not to force Mr. Fall to testify because such testimony would give him immunity from prosecution. He knew nothing about the oil scandal not acquired from the press and from rumor. He had not sent a report of the rumors which he voiced to the Committee on Public Lands...
...thing that I do know," he said in his testimony, "was the fact that this rumor, and that it was a rumor, rose far above gossip; it was current in New York. You heard it on the train. It was becoming current throughout the country that there was such a story. It was something rivalling the importance of the whispered campaign that there was in the last month before Mr. Harding's election, and I believed that out of respect to his memory that thing should be brought up to close scrutiny, and the scandal, if it is a scandal...
...rumor picked up by one of the Boston papers yesterday had it that the sensational University miler was suffering from foot trouble and hence would drop running on the boards. "There's nothing to that--his feet are all right," said Coach Farrell emphatically. "He has said something to me about taking things easy, and if he wants to on account of his studies or for any other reason I have no objections. I expect him to keep on, however. Naturally I want him to run in the Intercollegiates on March...