Search Details

Word: rumors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Last week's Philadelphia rumor: The Curtises plan to dispose of the costly morning Public Ledger, continuing only the evening and Sunday editions. Overhead saved from the morning Ledger would pay the installments on the more profitable Inquirer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philadelphia's Solution | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...persistent Washington rumor of last week was that President Roosevelt had been nagged into canceling the airmail contracts by Senators Black and McKellar who felt the airmail investi- gation was about to expire for lack of public attention unless the White House acted dramati-cally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Standstill | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

Yesterday, while the American gave birth to an unsubstantiated rumor that Dillon complained about Gill's two day tardiness in filing his brief, the Superintendent set to work on his rebuttal of the report of state-auditor Francis X. ("Hit and Run") Hurley '24, who presented 36 charges against the former prison head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass Meeting To Be Held To Discuss Gill's Outsting | 3/23/1934 | See Source »

...anonymous rumor that had been circulating around stated that the dog was now being held by a Boston debutante but this was spiked by the Lampoon. The Lampoon, however, did admit unofficially, that the dog was in the custody of a girl living within 20 minutes drive of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELEGATION FROM YALE HEADED FOR CAMBRIDGE | 3/21/1934 | See Source »

...week and has been featured by numerous amusing incidents. Within the environs of Cambridge, Charles Apted and his cohorts have carried on a courageous but fruitless search which has carried them into the furthest reaches of the University, and sent them scurrying in all directions at the slightest rumor. It was expected that the Colonel would neglect his dog hunt on Tuesday in favor of the Eliot Centenary Exercises, but when the crowd gathered in the court of Eliot House for the unveiling of the new bust of President Eliot the noted sleuth was not to be seen. Everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/21/1934 | See Source »

Previous | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | Next