Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message stated that the rumor that the Yale Daily News was starting an investigation was false but that the Record delegation...
...current rumor that this epidemic was caused by improper handling of the food in the Union, as was the case last spring, when thrifty men went to Stillman in three days, could not be checked last night. Roy L. Westcott '14, manager of the University Dining Halls, could not be reached at a late hour; however Dr. Paul B. Means '17, Medical Adviser, expressed the opinion that the epidemic would be of much greater extent, if this were true...
...Jugoslavia and the Catholic Tyrolese in Italy to join the recreated Empire. ... If Archduke Otto returns. Czechoslovakia will sever diplomatic relations with Austria." Thus, possibly because Austria's other crises were for the moment quiescent, louder than at any time in the past two years rose that favorite rumor of European cafes-restoration of 21-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg to the throne of Austria, Hungary, or possibly both. The House of Habsburg traces its ancestry straight back to a Germanic chieftain known as Guntram the Rich who died around 950 A. D. and whose grandson built...
...more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting in English. Meanwhile in London his lawyers won him ?11.000 ($55,880) worth of securities he had deposited...
...Henry Ford has been making steel for years but never enough to build all his automobiles. When the steel code stopped the discounts which steel's biggest customers were getting on their orders, a rumor spread that other motormakers would take a tip from Henry Ford and buy or build their own plants. Last week it was reported that Mr. Ford himself had started a $10,000,000 steel expansion program. United Engineering & Foundry Co. of Pittsburgh announced that he had ordered a complete set of rolling mills for his River Rouge plant...