Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urge to consolidate, ever uppermost in the heart of Frank A. Munsey, led to another journalistic union-but not under Mr. Munsey's banner. Without a word of warning, without the usual preliminary tremors of. rumor, it was announced that Ogden M. Reid, owner of the New York Tribune had bought The New York Herald (Mr. Munsey's property since 1920) and that they would be combined on the follow-ing morning. The Paris edition of the Herald was also sold to Mr. Reid...
John Harvard is to change his resting-place. The rumor of many month's standing has been confirmed. From a new position in front of University Hall the statue of the founder will soon be visible to officers and to undergraduates alike. No longer will the student have to journey to the New Lecture Hall or the Semitic Museum in order to catch a glimpse of it. And the Dean's office will now be constantly reassured that there are other traditions in college beside those of scholastic delinquency...
...Will the Freshman Class be reduced from 1024 to 585 so that all members may live in the Freshman Dormitories," a CRIMSON reporter asked Dean Bacon yesterday afternoon. "That is absurd," was the Dean's comment, "Equally foolish is the rumor that 50 per cent of the Freshman Class are on probation...
...provincial rumor to the effect that the Premier had become engaged to Lady Margaret Sackville, youngest daughter of Earl De la Warr, was speedily denied...
...Newspapers published the picture* of Right Reverend William Temple, Bishop of Manchester, 43, son of the illustrious late Archbishop of Canterbury. Rumor picked him to succeed Archbishop Randall Davidson, 76, who, it was said, would resign on account of age. True, Bishop Temple has friends in the Labor Government; but Archbishop Davidson is unlikely to give a Labor Government the chance to appoint his successor. Furthermore, a slight acquaintance with Canterburian tradition would reveal that its Archbishops yield only to death...