Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage a fascist march on Vienna in imitation of Mussolini's famed March on Rome. Chancellor Dollfuss was a party to this, willing to step down to accept either von Starhemberg or Emil Fey as Heimwehr Dictator. Prince von Starhemberg scotched this story himself: "Please deny energetically any rumor of a Heimwehr march on Vienna. There is no need for such a march. We are a part of the Government and fully support the Government...
...certain romantic appeal for the people; he is in every way a more attractive figure than the Chancellor, and that he is just as ambitious and more clever is becoming increasingly apparent. What his next move is going to be is, I think, fairly clearly adumbrated by the rumors which are being spread--and there is no doubt under whose auspices the spreading is being done. The main rumor has it that there may be a Hapsburg restoration; but circulating a bit more surreptitiously is another rumor, that in order to prepare Austria for the restoration, Prince Starhemberg may find...
With all due respect to the flaccid corruption innate to this snowy municipality, the recent exposures warrant firm action. Rumor has floated about that a well-known shoe firm is in collusion with the Cambridge city government. They aren't after the voter's cash. These avaricious galoshers are just drooling for undergraduate sacker money; so what do they do, but fix it up with the boys to keep the streets about Harvard full of snow. In fact, trucks of slush from other parts of the town may have been dumped on Mt. Auburn St. late at night. The Liberal...
...Encouraged by steelmen and not denied by motor makers is a persistent rumor that other automobile companies will take a tip from Henry Ford and buy or build their own steel plants. Steel's biggest customers resent the fact that under the steel code they no longer get discounts on their orders. Last week it was no sooner discovered that General Motors was dickering for an option on Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., than it was learned that negotiations had been dropped...
...crook. But by that time he was an accessory to many a damning irregularity. As he watched Tasker pull himself out of one ticklish position after another, Walter began to hope that everything would eventually be all right. But even Tasker could not beat the Depression. The inevitable rumor started the inevitable investigation. Tasker's companies collapsed. More families went on the dole. Boss Tasker and Cat's-Paw Walter went to jail...