Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While there has been no official recognition of the rumor that future Freshman classes of Harvard College will be lodged in the Yard, every indication points to an uprooting of the ties which now bind the first year unit to the dormitories fronting the Charles and a transplanting of the entire Freshman group in the Yard. Such a step, radical as it may seem to those who have come to accept the present distribution of classes as an inevitable law, would only be a corollary to the policy of dividing Harvard College into six Houses, the occupants of which will...
...Rumor. King Alfonso XIII, having piously buried his mother (TIME, Feb. 18), turned to affairs of state, last week, with such vigor that news leaks through the Spanish censorship envisioning His Majesty as demanding the resignation of General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, who has now dictated for five and a half years...
...which secrecy can be carried was achieved, last week, when not a single Italian newspaper was allowed to mention or even hint at what was going to happen, up to the very moment when the signing occurred. Thousands of Italians in rural districts knew nothing about it although the rumor spread fast by word of mouth. In the cities the sole source of printed information was newspapers imported from abroad. No explanation was made by either the State or the Papacy...
Guaranty-Commerce. The largest merger rumor, persisting over many denials, related a forthcoming union between Guaranty Trust Co. and National Bank of Commerce, both of Manhattan. Should this rumor?which has proceeded to the "reliably informed" and "authoritative sources" stage?be true, the resulting combination would constitute the world's largest bank. Guaranty Trust has resources of $1,052,000,000; National Bank of Commerce has assets of $934,000,000? thus the merged banks would form a two-billion-dollar institution. Combined deposits of the banks would total $1,570,000,000. An exchange of stocks would probably...
Shipping Merger. Probable sale of United States and American Merchant Lines to P. W. Chapman & Co. inspired a rumor that Mr. Chapman will next proceed to acquire the Munson Steamship Line, ships of which sail from U. S. to South American ports. Both Chapman and Munson interests, however, sharply denied this rumor...