Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is about a poll which was recently taken by Rumor-not by Roper...
...Raven comes to the U.S. under a cloud that is mostly hot air. The picture was made with German financing during the occupation. Rumor said that it was so ruthless an exposure of French decadence that it was shown in Germany, as anti-French propaganda, under the title A Small French City. Actually, the film is neither more nor less anti-nationalist than the work of any intelligent, morally responsible artist, in time of peace or war. Propaganda or not, the picture was not shown in wartime Germany; indeed it was banned there (Germans, after all, might observe that...
...reassuring. At C.I.O. headquarters a wan Phil Murray and P.A.C.'s beady-eyed boss, Jack Kroll, were holding a conference calculated to undo the soothing effects of Mr. Truman's vacation. They were not ready to make any public statement. But Murray and Kroll, so the Washington rumor ran, had met to devise some way by which Mr. Truman could be persuaded to withdraw as a candidate for re-election -and consider whom they could get to run on the Democratic ticket instead...
Economically, the outlook was dim. Food shortages would reach a crisis point by May. Last week, strikes protesting food shortages flared briefly in Vienna factories. The Reds agitated to prolong the strikes, circulated an ominous rumor among the workers: "Watch your step. Austria's next, and you have to account for yourself when the Communists take over...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big decision to make, he liked to get away from his desk for quiet meditation. Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false teeth...