Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warden informed newsmen that Capone had had scrambled eggs for breakfast. This fact was flashed over the country. From Harrisburg came word that Governor Fisher had signed the necessary papers for Capone's release at 11:07 a.m., that a special courier was carrying them to the penitentiary. A rumor spread that an airplane awaited Capone at Camden...
...found time to have his tonsils removed in the prison hospital. During the summer he played baseball in the yard and felt better for the exercise. Always generous, he gave away to charity what his prison-mates estimated at $25,000. This openhandedness was responsible for the unconfirmed rumor that he had occupied a special cell with chintz curtains at the window, easy chairs, cozy bed and mattress. Some Philadelphians interpreted his generosity as a bid for hospitality when...
...risen so high, times became comparatively lean. He organized Kay Features, a syndicate which has not proven eminently successful. The rumor that he might help form and head a new chain of newspapers has not, to date, materialized. But, besides his medal, Newsman Koenigsberg can point pridefully to a journalistic career begun at the age of 13, when, as a result of winning a Chamber of Commerce essay prize, he began reporting on the San Antonio Times...
Bethlehem-Youngstown. Often rumored, often denied, have been reports that Cyrus Stephen Eaton's Republic Steel will merge with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, fifth largest steel company. An old rumor recently revived and denied was that Bethlehem Steel, whose position as second biggest the Republic-Youngstown merger threatened, is planning to acquire Youngstown itself. Last week it seemed definite that this tremendous merger will be officially proposed and that Youngstown's founder-president, James A. Campbell, who two years ago blocked such a merger, is neutral this time. Youngstown is closely held by large stockholders who have been...
...rumor proved unfounded. A CRIMSON representative, patrolling the well-kept subterranean corridors of Morris and Hamilton halls was informed by a janitor of three years experience on the south side of the river that the Business School students are the cleanest bunch of college men he has known. Acquainted with the bottle rumor he added, "Come and I'll show you all we've picked up in that line over the past weekend." The display consisted of four ginger ale and three whisky bottles...