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Word: rumors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the Bank of England and of the French banking firm of Lazard Bros. & Co., Ltd., in London. Was he going to Paris to beg aid from the French for the proudest bank in the world? Scot MacDonald, about to leave Berlin for London, attempted to deny the rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Unmitigated Gloom | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...months ago the British Empire was jolted by a rumor: because the Government of Newfoundland was unable to find buyers for a mere $8,000,000 bond issue, worried Premier Sir Richard Squires was preparing to raise the money by selling Labrador to "foreign interests" (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Strange Saviour | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Richard, rushing from St. John's to Montreal to New York and back, trying to borrow money, insisted that the Colony was not bankrupt, that Newfoundland's financial difficulties were a political plot. Asked pointblank about the Labrador rumor, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Strange Saviour | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Lessing J. Rosenwald, 40, resigned as vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., became chairman of the executive committee, vice chairman of the board. The shift was interpreted as meaning that his father, Julius Rosenwald, plans to become less active in the company. Last week the rumor of a merger between Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward was stronger than it has been for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...with translucent glass. Three-quarters of a million dollars, half of its eventual cost, have been expended upon it, but now Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must be voluntary, from people to whom it represents an actual sacrifice. But Chicago rumor says that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who does not need to scrimp and sacrifice, was a large contributor to the building fund last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baha'i | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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