Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conquered France today is a gigantic sounding board for the shout of rumor, the whisper of fact. Last week it reverberated to an intensified campaign for collaboration with Germany. To Paris to talk with the Germans went Marshal Petain's "heir," Admiral Jean François Darlan, who then made a quick and mysterious trip to Beauvais (near which last year he met with Adolf Hitler) before going home to report to his aged chief...
...this, Straegy of the Americas is a valuable book. It presents many of the best arguments and most of the facts of the isolation-minded. It is a healthy antidote to the uncertainty and plain rumor-mongering current in so much of the discussion by the man-in-the-street. Above all, it may prove a last encouraging refuge if the day comes when America stands alone. Thoroughly understood in its fatal deficiencies as preacher of one decision, it should do much good as a factual background for any decision...
...Rumor of Prolonged Service...
...comment was forthcoming on the rumor that men called to service are in the army "for the duration," but it was pointed out that conscripts become reservists after a year's training, and are eligible for active duty at any time within the next 10 years. By executive order and without further legislation the President could keep men in uniform until the emergency is over--10 years at the most...
Their reasons are still unexplained. One rumor has it that one of the two, representing a House which used many years ago to have a reputation for good dances, was acared to annoy his clanny constituents for political reasons and that the other of the two was simply acting as the foll for the first. Another is that the two had the best dates for their own individual dances and refused to give them up because of the prospects of making money...