Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they may not see her for a full month, than they are of bald, likable, easy-going Ogden Mills Reid whose office is on their own floor. A contributing factor is that Mrs. Reid is sternly Dry, which most Herald Tribune men, including her husband, are not. Even the rumor that white-crowned Jack Bleeck, who has run the Herald Tribune's next-door bar for years, considered opening his door to women, gave the whole staff a mild case of jitters. Bleeck's affords something of the oldtime barber-shop refuge from feminism, and there nearly every...
...election could automatically bring about all the starting points in his EPIC program, for be will face a legislature which is not only conservative, but which is secuntoured to dancing to the super-conservative time of the late Jim Rolph. But in the present state of business psychology, rumor is as powerful as accomplished fact in raising the already high blood pressure of the financial world. If conservative experts predict that the credit of the United States will be rendered hazardous by the comparatively mild radicalism of Rooseveltianism, it is certain that the startling program planned by Mr. Sinclair...
...tradition that its ships must bear names ending in ia. No. 534 may become Britannia, because it was the name of the first Cunarder. Another possibility was Victoria, and a third was Columbia. Princess Elizabeth, often suggested, was losing ground as launching day drew near. Last-minute rumor said the name would be Queen Mary, in honor of England's Queen. Because Cunard with its ia and White Star with its ic have been merged, such a name, it was argued, would favor neither of the old companies...
...rumor was," the President said, "The immediate retirement of three members of my cabinet--the Secretary of Agriculture, and his undersecretary, the Secretary of the Treasury. It even went to the extent of announcing the name of a new Secretary of the Treasury
...growing importance of Richberg in the NRA has aroused more intensely vague fears which many have held during the last month or two that Mr. Roosevelt threw no oil on the troubled waters. He showed a distinct inclination, however, to pass off most of this criticism as vague rumor which no one should believe. He did say that it was valuable for the people of the country to think but he did not assuage their suspicious by one definite statement...