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Word: rumors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cracking down on his old enemy, Monopoly, the President did not do much to strengthen the theory that his attitude toward Business has changed markedly in the last six weeks. To Business, however, there was encouragement in the rumor at week's end that he planned soon to announce plans for starting a nationwide housing program financed by private capital and that the plans would include naming an outstanding capitalist, someone like U. S. Steel's Edward Stettinius Jr. or General Electric's Gerard Swope, to head the drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Toothache | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Yorkshire Post, owned by Mrs. Eden's family, did its best to sabotage Lord Halifax's visit. It was rebuked by the London Daily Telegraph (which is close to Mr. Chamberlain) for printing rumors that "There exist and are known to Germany to exist in this country [Britain] a "certain number of people-not all of them obscure [Halifax & friends]- who would be prepared to welcome a German campaign of territorial expansion in the East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hitler Touches Wood | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Barry Wood, football star of the class of 1932, is also a Phi Beta Kappa. His wife is a Phi Beta Kappa. But the rumor is spreading that since Saturday's great triumph of Football, his wife is having the two Phi Beta Kappa keys made into earrings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

Last week foreign oil companies, already vastly excited over the expropriation, suddenly heard a rumor that the Board of Arbitration was about to decide in favor of the $7,000,000 wage increase previously ordered. Immediately the oilmen got together, announced that they would "suspend operations" and abandon the country rather than pay it. It was at that point that President Cárdenas, who has plenty of resolute and resourceful Indian blood in his veins, called in representatives of Mexican Eagle Oil Co., affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell which already controls 60% of Mexican oil production. He handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Poza Rica | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...confirmed report that President Conant will attend Saturday's game with ex-President Herbert Hoover has revived the recent rumor concerning a proposition made to the University head asking him to serve on the Republican program committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoover, Conant, to Attend Game Together Saturday | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

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