Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Verdun last week. Charges had been made that although millions of francs are being spent on the new monument at Fort Douaumont heroic Verdun dead are not yet properly buried. Pausing only to invite reporters to accompany him, M. Champetier de Ribes took train from Paris to quash this rumor. At Verdun he discovered that not only are thousands "improperly buried," but at least 12,500 are not buried...
With the customary lack of authentic information, another rumor of President Lowell's resignation has appeared in the headlines. Prompt denials of the story made by University officials serve to discredit this type of baseless news, several similar exhibitions of which have been made in the Boston press during the last few years...
This is wholly untrue. The story was started as a rumor-a suggestion on some one's part that it would have been a very funny remark for General Butler to have made...
...rumor circulated in New York yesterday of a revolution in Russia is regarded here simply as an attempt to rig the wheat market...
...Angeles last week cropped a rumor that William Randolph Hearst had bought the Evening Express, oldest daily in the city. Next day was confirmed the report of the sale-not to Hearst but to his loyal friend and admirer, Publisher Paul Block, for a reputed price of $2,800,000. Publisher Block thereby made nationwide, and ten in number, his fast-growing chain of dailies. In Los Angeles last week he proudly took possession from Publisher Guy Chaffee Earl Jr. (principal owner) and Editor Edward Augustus Dickson...