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Word: rumorings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Fox gave out figures for 1930. By then, 1,000,000 persons will be ushered to seats nightly in Fox theatres. By then, 20 new theatres, for which land has been already chosen, will be erected. Whiskey. The Fisher brothers of Detroit are everywhere at once. Last week rumor put their money in Canadian whiskey, in a merger which will form the world's largest distilling company. U. S. capital, perhaps Fisher, is heavily invested in Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Ltd., which controls more than half of Canada's whiskey. Last week dickerings went on between Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers, Acquisitions | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...rumor which has reached the Yard to the effect that the Class of 1930 may, possibly, see fit to abolish the traditional Junior Dance, has aroused the approbation of at least one of the inhabitants of that precinct. For the Junior Dance, or Prom--as you choose to look at it--has been slowly dying for the last ten years; it is time to bury the corpse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Stoops to Conquer | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week a hearty endorsement-by-rumor to be the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Woman Secretary? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Believers in the Hert rumor apparently felt that a woman in the Cabinet would please women voters, and that Mrs. Hert was the logical woman to be chosen. The general opinion is, however, that the rumor has little basis. It was noticed that Dr. Work, widely quoted as the chief exponent of the Hert cause, last week issued a sharp statement deploring "publicity"' given to "conjectures" concerning the Cabinet, and disclaiming any influence in its selection. The doctor was so emphatic as to suggest the inference that he had been scolded again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Woman Secretary? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Admittedly the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" may find it necessary to delay his retirement, perhaps for months; but last week, as the Chamber and Senate convened, rumor insisted that M. Poincaré would shortly groom Le Dauphin for promotion by appearing with him in the Chamber and sponsoring a vast new project, which M. Tardieu has devised and which is called "The Program of Realization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dauphin into Premier? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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