Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profit of 24 million dollars. Meanwhile shares in Chase, Equitable, and many another Manhattan bank also enjoyed sensational rises. The bull movement in bank stocks was based on the official ratification of the Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce merger (TIME, March 4) and the resultant activity of rumor-spreaders who busily reasserted and consolidated Manhattan's banking...
...Rumors. Most frequently repeated stories were: That the Guaranty Trust Co. and National Bank of Commerce combine would be extended to include the Corn Exchange Bank; that First National would merge with Bankers' Trust; that National City would merge with Equitable Trust Co.; that Chase National would unite with Brooklyn Trust Co. Then there was a truly robust rumor that linked Guaranty Trust Co., National Bank of Commerce, Bankers' Trust and First National in a Morgan-group merger that would be the super bank of all the world. The rumors were all denied and seemed to consist...
Contrary to a rumor, current yesterday, that a possible third and rubber game of the Harvard-Yale hockey series would be played in the Boston Garden, such a game, if it is needed to decide the series, will be played at New Haven according to the previous plans, it was announced yesterday by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics...
Especially after his engagement to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow's daughter Anne (TIME, Feb. 25), the rumor grew that President-Elect Hoover would give Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh a sub-Cabinet job. The rumor vexed Mr. Hoover. Perhaps that was a reason for Col. Lindbergh's unexpected appointment last week by Secretary Whiting to be technical adviser to the aeronautical branch of the Department of Commerce...
With true official taciturnity, the high command of the force has refused to divulge the slightest detail of the plan of attack to be followed. There is a rumor, however, from reliable sources, to the effect that a number of the most robust and courageous policemen are to be organized as a "bean blower squad." Whether this unit will take up an in trenched position that will command the Gibson Terrace sector, or whether it will depend on speed and mobility for defense, and patrol the region, is as yet a matter of conjecture. One thing, however, is certain...