Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial expressed the very vague fear that because of depredations on British commerce "our costly lend-lease supplies are going to the bottom of the Atlantic." This is obviously based on a rumor quite common now--one neither confirmed nor denied by the administration--which states that 40 per cent of American aid has been sunk. This was the basis for the interventionist placard carried before the peace meeting of a few weeks ago stating that "Convoys Mean Victory." What the bearer of this placard meant was that convoys mean war and war means some kind of victory--maybe...
...only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below 40 per cent. He based his information "according to our composite records, which we believe to be complete." Now what happens to the convoy excuse of those who are willing to hang on to and exploit any rumor, no matter how vague and tenuous, in order to lead the people of the United States until they are checkmated into active belligerency? Jordan Whitelaw...
...doing to get U.S. supplies to Britain? He was unquestionably making available as many ships as the U.S. could provide (see p. 75). But what was being done to insure the safe passage of those ships across the Atlantic? Last week the vast mass of inquiry, advice, speculation, gossip, rumor, on the part of pundits and editors boiled down to a series of questions and answers, with more questions than answers...
...hours last week a rumor gutted the Minneapolis morning Tribune and evening Times-Tribune. Pressmen huddled together outside the Tribune building on Newspaper Row in Fourth Street. Reporters, some panicky and angry, some stunned or recklessly casual, gravitated toward the bars-to hold a wake for their jobs...
Heard oftenest-usually profanely-that night in Minneapolis bars was the name of John Cowles, 42-year-old publisher of the Minneapolis Star-Journal. Rumor was that John Cowles (rhymes with bowls) had bought the two Tribune papers, was going to fold them for good-as he had the Minneapolis Journal two years before...