Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other possible "friends" whom rumor has suggested: Jesse Jones, Amon Carter of Fort Worth's Star-Telegram, John Cowles of the Des Moines Register and the Minneapolis Star...
...German Fleet of small submarines and torpedo boats, floated down the Danube or shipped in pieces by rail, was assembling last week in Bulgarian ports. Only rumor announced the news, but for once rumor had support. Berlin papers carried a photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on the Danube...
...Long a rumor-last week an acknowledged fact-was a well-advanced project to launch a new newspaper to break the Chicago morning-paper monopoly of the bitterly isolationist, bitterly anti-Roosevelt Chicago Tribune...
...clear to everybody that Bertie was "backward, frivolous, vain." They tried sending him to Edinburgh and Oxford, to Canada, to the U.S. He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians "and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York...
...World War I, the Quartermaster Corps lost not only its construction job but the job of running the Army's motor transport, which was given to a separate wartime unit. Last week the Munitions Building bristled with reports that that pattern was to be repeated. Scheduled by rumor to take over motor transport and boss it for World War II was no engineer, no soldier, but a tough transportation man: Chicago's John D. (Drive-Ur-Self) Hertz...