Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the seven seas over the prow of a new Dollar liner, to declare: "I name thee President Hoover." Herbert Hoover III in the launching stand, shouted with excited glee, gave his grandmother's arm an impulsive shove. Declared R. Stanley Dollar: "Such is our answer to the rumor of a business depression...
...long as two years ago. Only as "a public duty" in the last fortnight had he consented to take one. As for his anti-Smith expenditures, he said he had not made a full report on them because he did not know whence they all came. To the rumor that he was close to large public utility interests, he retorted: "There's no man freer from water power interests than I am. I've had no personal nor professional relationships. ... I have a deep and abiding interest, though not much information, about the subject...
White bread can only be bought in bakeries "for home consumption," but Berlin newspapers gave credence to a curious rumor that the police will deal considerately with "people having weak stomachs," who bring their own white bread to restaurants, eat it there...
...Most persistent rumor: Government agents have queried brewers as to how soon they could resume 4% production, how many men they could employ, if or when Congress should legalize this beverage. *Wets already claim 472 delegates out of 1,098 at the next national Democratic convention...
Selling orders from all parts of the U. S. last week continued to converge on the New York Stock Exchange. Old rumors and new were again in circulation. Uneasiness was caused by the insistent story that something was amiss with Caldwell & Co., potent Southern house. A definite, frank statement from the Nashville Clearing House finally showed that this rumor was justified, but the fear exaggerated...