Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge denied absolutely that there was any verisimilitude in the rumor that Andrew W. Mellon might soon resign as Secretary of the Treasury...
Speaking of Woodrow Wilson as President of Princeton, the Bishop remarked: "There was a well-founded rumor that ex-President Cleveland, respected by the whole country for his rugged integrity, had been the first trustee to break with the President, not on grounds of policy, but because his word could not be trusted. Only a few thousands knew this, however; and misunderstandings with men of strong temper (and Mr. Cleveland had one) were always possible...
...that King George insisted upon going to Belfast in 1921 against the advice of his Ministers. Moreover, he wrote his own speech-the speech which called for peace and settlement and which committed the British Government to making an agreement with the South (later the Free State)- and, so rumor has it, told Premier George, who threatened resignation, that that was the speech he would utter whatever he (the Premier) might do. Lloyd George has never denied this story, perhaps from a desire not to oppose the King; but the chief truth of this bald version of the Kings action...
...Said, so rumor averred, ex-Kaiser Wilhelm to ex-König Friedrich August of Saxony, who was visiting the ex-All Highest at Doom: "Here's hoping." Echoed the ex-König: "Here's hoping." Each was hoping that the other would regain his throne...
...Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. controls the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co., (makers of busses) and the Yellow Cab Co.'s in this country. The stock of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. is worth about $28,000,000. The rumor as promulgated in Chicago had it that the merger was to include the omnibus company which controls the Chicago Motor Coach Co., operators of busses and the Fifth Avenue Coach Co. (Manhattan), also bus operators - in which case it would be a $60,000,000 affair and put General Motors into the operating as well as manufacturing business, taking control...