Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cogent in arousing Equity support has been the oldtime rumor that certain producers keep a blacklist among themselves, wherewith to discipline actors...
Aghast at the price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...
...guessed that Editor Gauvreau, a real newspaperman at heart and no Macfaddist, had gotten sick of the daily freak he had created to please Publisher Macfadden. The Graphic, a pink tabloid with the slogan "nothing but the truth," is scarcely newspaper. Torch murders, gang war, divorce cases, scandal, gossip, rumor, crime, are its main contents, dished up for an illiterate public with girl pictures, fan tastic "composographs" and "editorials" by unique Bernarr Macfadden...
...Rumor added that Commonwealth & Southern planned also, to trade shares with Birmingham Electric Co., of Alabama, one of the Electric Bond & Share group...
...must be added the name of short, stocky David Sarnoff, Radio Corp.'s Vice President and General Manager. Inasmuch as Radio Corp. has in the past conducted many a merger, and since, like all young industries, Talking Cinema is much in the merger state, many have been the rumors that Radio Corp. will soon absorb one or another of its competitors. All such rumors Mr. Sarnoff, just back from Europe, last week denied. He was particularly emphatic in denying published reports that he had made a hurried trip to Chicago where, last fortnight, a Radio-Keith-Orpheum convention...