Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first rumor to get around was that Wendell Willkie was just a super-hawker who had sold the Republican Convention a bill of goods. Last week, spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. When was he going to settle down and tend to his muttons-to winning an election for the Republican Party? Groaning Republicans saw Franklin Roosevelt, looking as insouciant as a gambler with a sure thing, planted before a backdrop of big guns, while Vice-Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington...
...Washington rumor had the destroyers in Canadian waters, also had the U. S. selling them to Canada, to release British destroyers, now on convoy duty, for Channel fighting...
...these newlyweds were counting on the supposition that married men will be exempt from the draft; but everywhere marriage-license records were broken. In Cleveland someone started a rumor and Cupid became cupidity. "Is it true," asked young women in a flood of phone calls, "that a war veteran's widow will get no pension if she marries after...
...elect Hurley's predecessor at St. Augustine, the Most Rev. Patrick Barry, had died only six days before. Such promptness in filling the vacancy was almost unprecedented. Obviously the Vatican was anxious to get Monsignor Hurley to the U. S. in an official capacity as soon as possible. Rumor had it that Monsignor Hurley, who as U. S. contact man for the Holy See saw much of Envoy Taylor, was going to the U. S. to continue his close cooperation with Mr. Taylor. Next day the Pope gave a private audience to the Bishop-elect, reportedly gave him instructions...
...Meanwhile Army and civil officials were removed from high posts or shifted from important centres. Others, including Mexico's air ace General Alfredo Lezama, were arrested. Almazán-istas were dismissed from key posts in the telegraph, radio and telephone services. Political circles buzzed over a rumor that General Francisco J. Mugica, close personal friend of General Almazán, had been invited by U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels for a long conversation. General Mugica had been prominently mentioned as a compromise President to break the present deadlock...