Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State Capitalism. While the world was waiting for the U. S. reply an even more startling rumor came over the wires. In an effort to avert revolution, the Cabinet was seriously considering abandoning the principle of private capitalism, and substituting for it a system of state capitalism in which the Government would take control of all private industries, banks, shipping, trade, to straighten out the nation's finances. This would be arriving at practical Communism by the shortest cut possible. Moscow jubilated, hailed the beginning of the world revolution...
Other Follies songs that will be heard: "I'm With You," "Sunny Southern Smile." Flesh fashion note: Mr. Ziegfeld has en dorsed the return of larger busts. False rumor: that the elephants who carry the undressed girls are real...
...king of outlaws. So, too, were girls in the street paid by photographers to sob publicly at the funeral of Cinema-sheik Adolphe Valerino. (Few days before, Editor Peters had sold out an entire edition by the ingenious banner-line: VALERINO DEAD-followed by small type reading: Says Rumor Fortunately Not True...
Clinton Stephen Lutklns who left the Stock Exchange house of R. W. Press' prich & Co. to become a vice president and director of mysterious Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. (TIME, March 2) last week resigned both positions, returned to Pressprich. Rumor said his successor would be William Gibbs McAdoo. Vague tales that big blocks of Allied have changed hands, that hard secret fighting has been waged, continued...
Daisy was intelligent enough to be flattered when rumor pinned on her the authorship of Elizabeth and Her German Garden* She tried writing stories herself; nothing much came of it. As Henry's career continued not to materialize, as marriage became a somewhat weary habit, Daisy and her husband drifted apart. In December, 1923, she divorced him. Now an old lady, she lives part of the time in Germany, part in England, is delighted that so many readers have been delighted by her reminiscences...