Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lead to believe that they could count on those laboratories. No wonder they think it's a sin and a shameful waste. Harvard men may even be a little worried themselves, all except those who are smart enough to realize that forewarned is forearmed, and, according to a current rumor, intend to go down to New Haven by boat...
...TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). He then seemed to have abandoned 'legging for an anti-Capone cleaning & laundry racket. Even so, one of his chief North Side henchmen, Jack Zuta, was spattered to death by slugs last summer in a Wisconsin dancehall (TIME, Aug. 11). Rumor said that Bugs last week came out of hiding to: 1) negotiate with Capone for a beer-peddling and gambling job in the North Side he once had ruled; 2) plot, with Aiello, Capone's death. He was arrested, questioned. He joked police and newsgatherers: "Who killed Lingle [TIME, June...
Said Spokesman Robinson: "It's always understood that if you go away to play football you will be taken care of. ... We got wind of a rumor several days ago that we were all going to be dropped to shift for ourselves after the football season . . . felt that we ought to get something besides food and flop and tuition. . . . Most of us will get jobs on ships until another football season rolls around, because we can't catch on at any other college-certainly not this year...
...certain daily newspaper columnist will be bumped off within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell himself has helped circulate the impression that "some day. . . ." Characteristic is the legend that he has placed in a safe deposit box the names of those who might cheerfully see him "rubbed out," with a detailed account...
...erected by Cleveland's diligent Van Sweringen brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. Imposing too is the collection of many shares in many industries used by Clevelander Cyrus Stephen Eaton in his spectacular bids for leadership in industry. About the Van Sweringen pyramid last week swirled gusts of rumor. And many were the tales in Manhattan that a vast shuffle in the Eaton pack had changed his hand...