Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering the official source and the fact that impartial observers had been locked out, this statement seemed calculated to multiply the volume of "foreign lies." As editors abroad demanded facts which their men in Berlin simply could not get, slow leaks from Germans sworn to secrecy produced a composite rumor which fitted together fairly well. The rumor: Germany's Reichswehr has been demanding a show-down on the death of onetime Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, shot with his wife by Nazis during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9). The General's regiment has demanded that either something...
...Rumors have been circulated-from sources plainly self-interested and unfriendly-that The Oregonian has been sold. Some of the rumor mongers have identified the supposed purchaser variously. Most of them have said that Mr. Hearst is the purchaser. . . . The Oregonian has not been sold. . . . No sale is in negotiation or pending...
...last fortnight the venerable Portland Oregonian felt obliged to print the foregoing "plain statement of facts'' in a two-column box on its front page. It may have helped squelch a false rumor, but it could not make the Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...
Playfair could not be reached either in Cambridge or at his home to confirm a rumor from a reliable source that he may resign from the Council. It is considered likely that any action of this kind will remain in abeyance until the investigation is completed...
...Lord Chief Justice of England, rolypoly Baron Hewart has a viciously humorous temper, flies into apoplectic rages at any rumor that he may resign: "I'll never resign! I'll never retire!! Never, never as long as I live...