Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Tirana, Albanian Capital, a London Daily Mail correspondent sent news even more reassuring: "There are no Italian troops whatever in Albania." Yet, such is the persistence of the war rumor (TIME, Jan. 10) that major statesmen in the chief European capitals found time to inform correspondents last week that Albania is "a perilous zone ... a looming danger . . . portent . . . menace...
...Rumania telephoned in some agitation last week to her daughter Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. King Ferdinand of Rumania, phoned Queen Marie to Queen Marie, had suffered a relapse in his long, chronic illness (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.). Soon a telephone operator who overheard the royal conversation started a rumor which grew and gathered, gravity until correspondents in Berlin asserted "on the highest authority" that King Ferdinand was dead...
...check these rumors the Rumanian Government very characteristically suspended all electrical communications and held up the mails-thus giving the impression that perhaps even a revolution might be imminent. As the welling tide of rumor broke in a sensational surf throughout the press, only three pertinent facts seemed definite...
While this storm was still in abeyance the Nationalists pushed their advantage and sent three armies rapidly advancing toward Peking which correspondents declared "certain to fall" on the strength of a doubtful rumor that famed War Lord Chang Tso-lin was withdrawing his forces to his great war base at Markden Manchuria...
That Ford Motor Co. proposes to produce a gearshift car very soon. The basis for this rumor is the Ford inquiry made to equipment manufacturers about the prices of new, special machinery. That Ford Motor Co. plans to make a cheap six-cylinder car. This idea Ford officials have flatly denied. That motor car manufacturers this year will seek to buy up or at least control the tire manufacturers who supply original equipment. The logic of this is sound; the motor maker with a tire subsidiary cuts his costs. Ford Motor Co. is already making a great share...