Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumor has reached me that the osculatory bribe was used to inspire a Cushing Academy team before its game with Deerfield. I am told that Miss Davis is an alumna of that institution, which fact alleviates somewhat the reprobation. If my information is correct, you underrate Miss Davis's charms; Cushing won the game 34-0. Sidney L. Eaton...
Experts were glowing a few weeks ago when Henry Ford announced that he was increasing his production quotas, and the sentiment at that time was that this news augured well for the automobile industry as a whole. But old Dame Rumor couldn't let Ford's promising statement alone. A little bird has been informing the followers of the market that both Ford and Packard are planning to enter new candidates in the $1000 class, to compete with General Motors and Chrysler. This bit of information adds to the general gayety of the situation and at the same time throws...
Strong but above all quick was the line he took when the National City Bank branches in Japan were threatened after a rumor that their managers were guilty of "photographic espionage" (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), and when Japanese hoodlums set out to destroy the Singer Sewing Machine branch office at Yokohama with cordwood clubs (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). In both cases Ambassador Grew was at the Foreign Office almost before its officials knew that trouble had broken. In both cases, by reminding the Japanese with courteous firmness what protection their property in the U. S. has always enjoyed, Ambassador Grew...
This column has carefully avoided, for the past few weeks, any mention of Fabian Sebvitsky and his "Grand Orchestra." Time for silence is now over, as patience reaches the limit. It has been rumored that Mr. Sevitsky is a real musician, but thus far this rumor is utterly contradicted by the evidence. Please, Mr. Sevitsky, if your boys can't do it, please refrain from your weekly annihilations of great music...
Though Administration speakers led by R. F. Chairman Jesse Jones, who just a year ago was exhorting the same bankers to "be smart for once," bubbled with peace & goodwill, the rumor spread that the President was disappointed with the unregenerate delegates, that he had decided to confine his speech to a breezy greeting. What happened after that is still a state secret. But a few hours before the bankers convened in Constitution Hall two men suddenly took pencil and paper and began to write. One was Franklin D. Roosevelt. The other was Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of Manhattan...