Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Motor Trust. With the Cutten-Blair & Co. Petroleum trust definitely established, rumors last week centered about the formation of an automotive trust in which the names of Mr. Cutten and a "progressive Wall St. banking house" were freely coupled. Two other great names were added?Fred J. Fisher, Vice-President of General Motors and Walter P. Chrysler, head of Chrysler Motors. This quartet was credited with the planning of an Investment Trust with a capital of from $500,000,000 to $700,000,000, formed to operate exclusively in automobile securities. Upon this automotive rumor was built an even grander...
...Another old lady arrived with two ring doves in a wooden cage. 'These,' she told officials at the Palace, 'must be placed in His Majesty's sleeping room for their breathing purifies the air.' The birds too were retained and, so rumor has it, were released a few hours afterwards in the beautiful Palace gardens, where they will no doubt flourish far better than they would have done in their wooden cage...
Round 7. The mighty house of J. P. Morgan & Co. was authoritatively said to be advising clients to support Mr. Rockefeller Jr. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon insisted that the Mellon interests were neutral, when a Mellon-Stewart rumor persisted...
...there were distractions: some young moderns noisily ordering drinks; an old "hag-beauty" was noisily bullying her husband; and between them ran the rumor of a typical French railway accident up the line. Alan Frith-Walter's benignity was therefore disturbed-only to be completely upheaved at the sight of Pearl. Why was she on the Rome express, why had he not known of her trip, why was his son not with her? Conjugal difficulties? Scandal in the Frith-Walter family...
...rumored that President Little's resignation came as the result of friction between him and the Board of Regents, and even if such a rumor were true it probably had its origin in some conflict over a matter of policy. If such were the case, it would not be the first one in which a president of an American college had been forced to give up his position due to pressure from some governing board. On the other hand there are even more numerous cases of smaller executives resigning from their positions in order to continue research which they considered...