Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatic rumor had it that "Henlein showed himself most intransigent." But shortly thereafter Herr Henlein assembled his lieutenants in the Hotel Veimar in Marienbad. There he outlined the Sudeten demands anew, clarified along lines suggested by Lord Runciman. Meanwhile, to make the clamorous Henlein minority perhaps less intransigent, Premier Hodza soon after announced he would give choice political plums to Sudeten Germans by appointing them to seven large postmasterships, a district public works superintendency, two district governorships, more jobs in the railroad administration...
...discuss aiding European refugees set up their new permanent bureau. Earl Winterton, lofty Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was elected chairman.* His first job was to hear complaints from Britain's own dominions. The Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council, spokesmaned by Sir Leopold Moore, angrily protested a rumor that 500 German Jewish families would be sent to settle in Rhodesia. "Why," exploded Sir Leopold, "can we not have instead 500 British colonists who are not Jews...
Last year the American Radio Relay League secured for this South Pacific speck a modern radio transmitter. One night last week Operator Andrew Young (VR6AY, Pitcairn) talked with Operator Dorothy Hall (W21XY, Queens, L. I.), told her that all ships were avoiding the island because of a false rumor of typhoid epidemic, that Pitcairn was in desperate need of medicines for inhabitants who were ill from other causes...
Texas last week buzzed with a rumor. Franklin Roosevelt having come and gone after conferring a Federal Judgeship on 39-year-old Governor Allred (TIME. July 18), the story was that there had been a political deal: Son Elliott Roosevelt had got his friend Mr. Allred the Judgeship and Mr. Allred would help Elliott get elected to office, perhaps the lieutenant-governorship in 1940. Prompt and explicit in his comment was Son Elliott: "I do not plan to run for any political office now, two years from now or four years hence...
Josette (Twentieth Century-Fox) will leave undecided the rumor current for some time that Simone Simon can sing. When trying she produces noises which are not unpleasing but remain unintelligible because she never lets articulation interfere with her famed pout. From time to time, it appears that Robert Young, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will be permitted to get the girl, thus beating out his rival, Don Ameche, on his home lot. This would, however, constitute a serious breach of cinema convention and does not occur. Josette further manifests its veneration for tradition in nothing more clearly than its plot...