Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government made a beau geste to business when it did not appeal the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis permitting Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum Oil Co. of New York to merge (TIME, June 15). Straightway every oil merger rumor of the last three years came to life. Last week a gusher of oil news spouted on the front page of every newspaper. Of greatest magnitude was the announcement that...
...your Aug. 10 issue of TIME I was much surprised to see under heading of People on p. 22 the rumor-"Mrs. Calvin Coolidge bobbed her hair"-printed as a fact. You know, of course, this has been disproved...
...fixed income-bearing investments including municipal bonds were to be taxed 1%. As a "patriotic loan" the 5% Government War loan bonds were to be converted to 4% or 4½%. The total thus saved would be matched by an equivalent cut in Government salaries. There was another rumor. Scot Mac-Donald had an important conference with King George's assistant private secretary, Sir Clive Wigram. It was rumored that a cut in King George's privy purse allowance, which has remained at some $550,000 per year since 1910, was being considered.* Other reported cuts...
...years ago with bringing successful Banker Chapman from Chicago into the marble corridors of No. 45 Broadway with his $16,000,000. Last week Mr. Sheedy said he was going to bid again, backed this time by nobody knew whom, but with a reported stake of $10,000,000. Rumor connected this fresh capital with Harvey C. Miller, tidewater terminal man of Philadelphia, good friend of President William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad...
Engaged. Lady May Cambridge, daughter of the Earl & Countess of Athlone, niece of Queen Mary of England; and one Henry Abel Smith, captain of the Royal Horse Guards, Lady May's father's aide while he was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. Rumor exploded: that Lady May Cambridge would marry the Prince of Wales...