Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...
...London rumor insists that King George of Greece intends to abdicate the throne to which he was restored only in 1935. In Athens, however, Dictator Metaxas, who does not get on too well with His Majesty but dislikes Prince Paul even more, has recently decreed large financial grants to King George, presumably to persuade him that being King of Greece is, after all, not so terrible...
...rumor which has been spreading through College that the famous lectures which have kept the New Lecture Hall from growing old are not to be given any longer was investigated yesterday and found to be true...
...rumor that Col. Lindbergh intended to come home started a few weeks ago in St. Louis. Major Albert Bond Lambert, one of the backers of the 1927 flight, announced that he had received a letter in which the Colonel said he hoped to be in St. Louis "very soon." A New York Times reporter named Lauren Lyman, who acted as Colonel Lindbergh's "go-between" with the press during the Hauptmann trial and later broke the news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred...
...Salm-Reiffer-scheidt-Raitz, 29, by both religious and civil courts at Salzburg and Vienna. Proceedings have dragged on since 1935. when he Prince appealed for annulment because lis wife had borne no heirs to the Starhemberg estates (on which he now owes $60,000 tax arrears). Vienna rumor announced that he would be married this week to Actress Nora Gregor, a Max Reinhardt protegée, who has already given him a male heir...