Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. looked like a comer: asked about a rumor that he would get a Justice Department job, Attorney General Tom C.Clark responded: "I can only say that Assistant Attorneys General are always appointed by the Attorney General, and I am very fond of Roosevelt...
...opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth rumor in Arab country at 40-60 miles a day. In spite of his regard for the Koran he concluded: "To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. . . . Here, I think...
...Rumor has it, however, that a ninth fracas, with Amherst, will actually open next fall's hostilities in Cambridge on September 25. Repeaters from this year are Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Princeton, Brown, and Yale...
Gilding the lily, the athletic directors have placed the boys half-way up and on the sidelines for the Rutgers game, instead of tucking them away somewhere deep in the bowl where the game is but a rumor. The cynics who look for evil motives may try to content themselves with the one hitch of a 25 cent tariff on each boy, but that goes to the government by law, and nobody around Cambridge receives a cent...
...Anderson observed only a few hours after the President's fluff, had already fallen off; trading had fallen 53% since the one-third cash margin rule was put into effect two weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 13). But the price of grain went right on rising. Next day, when rumors spread that CCC was about to step out of the market, the price of wheat fell off a bit, but continued its climb when the rumor proved false. So long as the Government bought, there was no reason for grain prices to go anywhere...