Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half a million Dutch turned out in The Hague for the annual opening of the States General last week when they heard the rumor that Prince "Benno." the German fiance of Crown Princess Juliana, would probably be riding in the royal coach...
Meanwhile sociable United Press Representatives Ptlaum & Yindrich circulated in Toledo among "militia men and women mad with excitement." Cabled Ptlaum: "Everyone had a rumor. Nobody knew exactly what had happened, what was happening or what was going to happen...
Presently Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker, who played godfather to the whole stunt, arrived with a rescue party, persuaded the two to stop bickering, fly on together. Flyer Merrill at once telegraphed New York: "There is positively no truth in the rumor that Harry and I have any differences. We are closer friends than any two men living...
...enough for Harvard merely to protest that it knows no stamp and has produced no type. The myth must be blown skyhigh, like the rumor of the iron in raisons or the alleged intimacy between Camels and Mrs. Cabot's throat...
Says a law of Pennsylvania: "Any person who shall make . . . any statement or rumor, untrue in fact, in reference to the solvency or derogatory to the financial condition of any National or State bank . or other financial institution in this Commonwealth . . . shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 and by imprisonment at hard labor for a term not to exceed five years...