Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among College idlers in the Square rumor has it that the sign "William L. Tutin, Bookseller," marks the entrance to a den of subversive activities. "It looks mighty suspicious to me," said one passerby, referring to the three frock-coated, be-spectacled employees scurrying to and fro in a seemingly pointless...
...Spree & the Promise. The reform had been anticipated. Two weeks earlier the U.S. State Department's Voice of America had reported a buying spree in Moscow, started by a rumor of new money. Thousands of Russians frantically tried to convert their money into more durable things-silk lampshades and fur coats-and stores closed on empty shelves behind signs which read: "Closed for repairs." Even when people had new money the shelves might stay empty...
...more striking than the rumor's accuracy was the half apologetic, half-propagandist, wholly contradictory tone of Zhdanov's decree. Said he: "Currency reform in our country is radically different from currency reforms in capitalist countries. In the U.S.S.R. it is being carried out not at the expense of the people. . . . However, the reform demands certain sacrifices. The state is taking on itself the greater part of the sacrifice, but it is also necessary for the population to bear a part -all the more since it will be the last sacrifice...
...week, a trader idly remarked that he presumed the Government was temporarily out of the market as a buyer of cash wheat. In a few minutes, this bit of gossip was exaggerated into a "report" that the Government would stop buying for 60 days. Although the Government denied the rumor a few a hours later, December wheat dropped 8? a bushel from its peak...
Long and Jimmy Morrison got down on all fours, playing the game of politics. Morrison confided last week: "The other day I got my rumor factory goin' on the story that Earl has cancer of the throat. I know it ain't so, but that's politics...