Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor from New York appearing in one of the metropolitan newspapers yesterday morning and reprinted in several Boston papers yesterday afternoon to the effect that E. L. Casey '20, of the University football coaching staff will take the place of Arnold Horween '21 as head coach of the Harvard eleven next year was definitely denied by William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics...
Through the coffee houses of gossiping Vienna spread a rumor that handsome Prince von Starhemberg, fired by the triumphs of his friend, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, in Germany, has a Heimwehr plot up his sleeve to doublecross the Seipel group which has given him the Ministry of Interior, hopes to manage the election of so many Heimwehr men that he himself will become No. 1 Austrian...
...rumor which Europe's political gossips insistently repeated last week was that fat Fernando had not really tried to kill Prince Umberto at all. Fernando de Rosa is obviously, admittedly an antiFascist, might have logically shot a Fascist prince, but many an Italian has heard that no one loathes Benito Mussolini more wholeheartedly than slender aristocratic Crown Prince Umberto. Thus the shooting might conceivably have been a fake, staged by friends of H. R. H. to increase his popularity in Italy before his wedding. Fat Fernando did his best to deny all such rumors on the witness stand last week...
...Tribune carried a copyrighted confirmation of the change of management. Bitterly editorialized the Herald & Examiner: "This is probably the first known instance in which a copyrighted story has been denied and then re-copyrighted by the publication broadcasting the denial." But the Tribune had originally turned up the rumor...
...started within 30 days. Until lighting of the airway is completed, transcontinental mail must be held overnight at Dallas. President Coburn last week gave no credence to a report that a merger involving Robertson Aircraft and S. A. F. E. might follow the awarding of the contract. But the rumor persisted...