Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presently there was a rumor that she was with child. The Commodore was encouraged by the possibility of recruiting a son to inherit his command. When his wife's "inflation" proved a bubble, he became somewhat embittered against the world in which such trickeries were practiced...
...shaggy old Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking for the Reich to Germany...
...Dwight Filley Davis, wife of the Governor-General of the Philippines, denied a rumor that her daughter Alice was engaged to marry Allan Hoover, the President's son. The two are "barely acquainted," said Mrs. Davis. She explained: one day on the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md, (while Mr. Davis was Secretary of War), Allan Hoover and Alice Davis happened to stand near each other when a camera clicked...
Swift-tongued rumor had been busy before, anticipating a merger of banks in Boston, a merger in particular between Old Colony Trust Co. and First National Bank. Last week Philip Stockton, president of Old Colony, admitted that his company had entered merger discussions which had been broken off-and then renewed, with no decision yet reached. Believing that what a bank president calls a possibility is a sure thing, would-be stockholders eagerly hoisted the price of Old Colony stock in one day from $815 (bid) to $910 (bid). Very little stock was offered...
Last week, without "shrinking," the Journal was officially folded into the Daily News and made a part of it. Henceforth subscribers of the two newspapers will be served by one full-sized daily, The Chicago Daily News and Chicago Daily Journal. The facts behind the tabloid rumor proved to be as follows: Publisher Thomason of the defunct Journal, retaining those members of his staff who were not taken over to the Daily News in the consolidation, will issue soon an afternoon tabloid newspaper, known as the Daily Times. Copiously illustrated, wholly independent of the Daily News & Journal, it will...