Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Source. Thomas W. Lamont, potent Morgan partner, not a signatory, declared that the manifesto has been in circulation among international financiers for some time. Wall Street supplied the rumor that it took final form when Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and Dr. Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, conferred with Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at Antibes, French Riviera (TIME, Aug. 30). Of these three fiscal tycoons only Dr. Schacht would comment last week: "The manifesto is connected closely with the recent conference of German and British industrialists in England [TIME...
...delightful Southern drawl, since the opening of school. They live in the same cottage near the campus, and are constantly together except when the President's son is attending classes. Last week the press heard of young Mr. Coolidge's protector for the first time. Forthwith rumors began to brew and circulate. Some said that cranks had been threatening the "First Son of the Land". . . . Others whispered that Colonel Starling's prime duty was to prevent Son John from eloping with Florence Trumbull, daughter of the Governor of Connecticut. At his home in Plainville, Conn., Governor Trumbull...
...Chinese Red Cross proceeded speedily to bury 3,000 citizens of Wuchang who died of starvation during the siege. Contrary to rumor, the foreign population was found to have suffered no war casualties or deaths by starvation. Within the week Wuchang pulsed once more with normal industry, dozed behind its ancient walls...
...breath-taking amounts. It has always been hard, almost impossible, for me to find anyone with the temerity to wager against the infallible Forecast, but by a clever bit of strategy last week--you may have read the Saturday CRIMSON--I allowed credence to be given to the rumor that the Shemokin Idol is no longer infallible. :I have been accused of breaking faith with my public by purposely miscalling Saturday's results in one or two important cases, but what is one's public when there are little Forecast mouths to be filled--some of my brother's children...
...more than a rumor--nor can one, lost in the hinterlands of Cambridge, always be quite sure--that a certain gentleman, hight Tunney, lieutenant of Marines, and sometimes called the crowned champion of the world, is to complete the scandal caused by a writer of popular songs, to the extent of entering the Social Register, be it more--then fell is the fortune of all but fatuity. For though when Greek meets Greek, they eat rice pilaf, when prize fighter marries debutante, the public eats the pudding, not alone of publicity, but of despair...