Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan newspaper offices, telephones began jangling crazily. Angry voices wanted to know if the terrible rumor was true. It was. One choked-up caller exploded: "Geez, it's Poil Hobba for the Giants." Said another: "O.K., send a photographer down to Brooklyn Bridge in 20 minutes. I'm jumping...
...start a Paris edition of the Times, as rumor had it. The Times gave up that idea two months ago. Said Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger: "There's not going to be a Paris edition, there's not going to be a Berlin edition, there's not going to be a London edition, there's not going to be a Peking edition...
...Times was talking, but almost everyone else in town was. The rumor: that the Times was about to start a new afternoon paper (Los Angeles has three A.M.s but only...
...hold the state's delegates together indefinitely and wait for some strategic moment to make their bargain. Now Ed Martin posed, sitting on a sofa, with his arm snugly around a smiling Tom Dewey. Dewey aides announced a press conference for later in the day; the rumor spread that not only Ed Martin but New Jersey's Governor Driscoll would be there. The wise guys said: "There goes the ball game...
There was a short delay. An angry Sigler, in shirtsleeves and plastic suspenders, got up to deny the truth of the Michigan rumor. Michigan had not deserted Vandenberg, he said. The voting began. The score on the first ballot: Dewey, 434; Taft, 224; Stassen, 157; Vandenberg, 62; Warren, 59. Dewey had not made it. Bingo...