Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect Negro George Hughes, but not to fire on the would-be lynchers. The court of inquiry "is convinced that this report was instigated by a person in Sherman for the purpose of stirring up the mob." The court blamed the newshawk for lack of diligence in verifying the rumor, which Associated Press and other agencies circulated widely. TIME'S story clearly stated Governor Moody's denial of any "don't shoot" telegram, a denial substantiated by a search of telegraph company files. TIME was accurate also in reporting Capt. Hamer's remark upon hearing...
...things for which the hearts of tabloid newspaper editors currently yearn, one of the dearest is news-or even the barest rumor, hint or factitious mention-of a baby which tabloidom hopes and prays is soon going to be born to the Charles Augustus Lindberghs. Evidence of the depth of this yearning was furnished last week by the New York Daily News. When Col. Lindbergh landed at Newark Airport with Dwight Whitney Morrow, that famed father-in-law who wants to be nominated for the Senate by New Jersey's Republicans beckoned to him for political-photographic purposes...
Ford Denial. Fantastic but popular has been the rumor that Henry Ford & Son have bought control of National City Bank...
Last week the Ford office issued a statement, saying : "We rarely deny rumors and we do not intend to begin the practice now but this report was disseminated so widely as to call for denial. The Fords are not buying any bank stock anywhere." Prepaid Freight. With the ancient rumor of a merger between Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward once again laid low, last week there was evidence of a move of co-operation between the two. Prepayment of freight, a move originated by the two houses last summer, has been costly, now will be abandoned by both...
There was more ogling at Buckingham Palace. The biggest crowd since His Majesty's nearly fatal pneumonia (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928, et seq.) began to gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from...