Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widespread during the past month has been this rumor: Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh Jr., 17-month-old son of the No. 1 U. S. hero, is deaf and so has not learned to talk. Cause of the affliction was supposed to have been the pre-natal drumming of airplane motors in his ears, causing a trauma, while his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, continued to fly during her pregnancy...
Last week no less a personage than Clinton Wallace Gilbert, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, came forward for the Lindbergh child to deny this rumor. In the column ("Daily Mirror of Washington") which he usually devotes to the politically great of the land, Pundit Gilbert wrote with unaccustomed feeling and excitement...
...Rumor that Mr. Tinker represented William Fox, attempting to buy control of his company again, were scouted. Of his friendship with Mr. Clarke there was no doubt and it was thought that he represented a compromise between putting a100% Chaseman in the presidency or leaving Mr. Clarke as president. Banker Tinker is familiar with Fox's set-up through his position at Interstate, for the investment trust bought many Fox and General Theatres Equipment securities. Although it is odd for a cinema company not to have a cineman as either chairman or president, observers pointed out that...
When Coach Rockne died he was on an airplane trip for Studebaker which had just engaged him at $25,000 a year to pep up salesmen. Rumor widely had it last week that Mrs. Rockne will receive a year's salary at the same rate for use of the name; also, perhaps, a stock interest...
...recent tariff on matches has made this business less profitable, has made it seem likely that Herr Kreuger would acquire a U. S. factory. Once it was widely thought that he had bought a big interest in Diamond Match Co., biggest in the U. S., but this rumor was groundless. Last week, however, Herr Kreuger got his company. It was Federal Match Corp., owner of modern factories at Bloomsburg and Bellefonte, Pa., Duluth, Joliet and Spokane. Federal has issued no statements since 1929, at which time it showed $3,248,000 in assets, no earnings. Vulcan Match plans...