Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME err in saying that Samuel Goldwyn was never associated with M-G-M (TIME, Nov. 15, p. 42) ? According to The Great Goldwyn by Alva Johnston, Goldwyn was once a part of MGM. Evidently this must be correct for rumor has it that Goldwyn bought 5,000 copies [of this book...
Ever since the retirements of Chief Justice George Ewing Martin and Associate Justice Charles H. Robb opened two vacancies recently in the venerable U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Washington correspondents have been energetically spreading the rumor that one of them was destined for angular, friendly Chairman Fred Moore Vinson of the House Ways & Means sub-Committee on Taxation. Last week Franklin Roosevelt obligingly confirmed the rumor by issuing a batch of appointments upping 64-year-old Justice D. Lawrence Groner to be chief justice, naming as associate justices Cornell Law Professor Henry W. Edgerton...
Uneasy Berlin rumor had it that General Goring's insistence upon expenditures for rearmament greater than Dr. Schacht considers "possible." has brought the Nazi state to a fateful consideration of whether it must now resort to inflation. In Nazi oratory the inflation of the German mark after the War by Socialists has always figured as "criminal." If this crime should have to be committed again, Nazis must try to distract German public opinion from it by scoring some particularly huge "success"-such as recovering German colonies or absorbing Austria. Up to 1914 the total number of Germans resident...
...year-old professor will finish out the first half year of his course and then will travel to Armenia on an archaeological expedition. Rumor has it that James P. Munn '12, professor of English, will take over the second half of Lake's Bible course, although there has been no confirmation of the rumor...
...charity will go an unnamed sum received by the Duke of Windsor in settlement of the libel suit he had brought against Publisher William Heinemann and Author Geoffrey Dennis, whose Coronation Commentary, the Duke's attorney said, had "repeated the rumor that the lady who is now the plaintiff's wife occupied before his marriage to her the position of his mistress." Announcing settlement of the suit, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, suggested that the Duke might "almost" be justified in laying upon Author Dennis a "thoroughly efficacious horsewhip...