Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaak was elected president of U.N.'s General Assembly, where the world for the first time noticed the big Belgian's political skill, his moving oratory, his practical internationalism. He hulked over the nations' quarrelsome confusion with patience, fortitude and humor (rumor had it that he read mystery stories during the duller speeches...
Election workers will check off each voter as he turns in his ballot, and will also invade dining rooms to catch the votes of late diners. And there is a strong rumor around Council headquarters that a brand-new set of wooden ballot boxes may be ready for the occasion...
...story, to be brief, is as follows. Across the river, destroying the somewhat aesthetic composition of the Business School and the Stadium, a metal tower is going up. Rumor has it that the tower is for television or something of the kind, but there is no reason to believe that insidious little story. Surely there is enough madness in the world already without a misplaced francophile trying to rival the Eiffel Tower with the sole aid of an erector set, thereby destroying Harvard's architectural symmetry...
From the Communist People's World in San Francisco, the elusive rumor about Roper's "secret" poll on Wallace for Luce jumped across the desk of Walter Winchell, who reported that Mr. Luce's poll (he didn't say Roper did it) showed Wallace to have 15,000,000 votes. . . . From Mr. Winchell's Broadway column, the rumor fell back again into the Communist press . . . where it was reported that it was reliably reported that Roper had done the poll on Wallace for Luce, and when Luce saw the results he told Roper...
...this time I felt that this alleged child of Roper, sired by Rumor, out of Washington, had grown big enough. I wrote to the Daily Worker, and called Mr. Winchell to tell them that no such poll on Mr. Wallace had ever been taken by me, that if and when any such poll were taken, neither Henry Luce nor anyone else either would or could suppress it. As a matter of fact, in over ten years of directing the FORTUNE Survey, neither Mr. Luce nor anyone else has ever tried to suppress any of our polls, despite the fact that...