Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he was Governor, there came a rumor that Warren T. McCray had met with financial difficulties, that his stock farm had been a failure, and that he was on the verge of bankruptcy. The Governor denied these rumors and said that in any case his private affairs could be of little interest to the public. The public, though, became interested later when they discovered that Warren T. McCray had been involved in a shady scheme to recover some of the wealth which he had undoubtedly lost. When he was convicted of using the mails to defraud, they were scandalized...
Joseph Langone, officiating Boston mortician, refused to take them to Manhattan. Rumor had it he was waiting to be paid $700 for his services. Another rumor said that Miss Vanzetti objected to further display of her brother's remains. The absence of one of the chief exhibits deflated but did not entirely halt the Union Square meeting. A huge clenched fist, representing Labor reared itself aloft in the intermittent rain while orators reiterated complaints of the masses...
...rumor was laid to rest last week in the Flowery Kingdom of the Emperor of Japan. It had been suspected and asserted that Japan, uneasy over the failure of the Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.), was attempting to revive the Anglo-Japanese alliance, killed in 1923 by the accords made previously (1921) at the Washington Naval Conference...
Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton, 67, British complete letter writer, issued a statement last week. Said he to the London Daily Chronicle: "A horrible rumor has reached me that I have written my last letter to 'the newspapers. . . . This rumor is wholly false, as I am now determined to go on writing until I am dead...
...Acts. That motorists may be obliged to tread their accelerators stoutly to have a front view of any new Fords going their way, was suggested by a statement issued last week by Edsel B. Ford (president of the Ford Motor Co.), the first official announcement in many weeks of rumor. He spoke of the car as "an accomplished fact" and reported the results of the country road test, made one warm summer day over hill and plain, curve and stretch, the car had run: 27 miles the first half-hour. 56.1 miles the first hour. 110 miles in two hours...