Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farm wives blanched at the rumor. For years, the stout, fast-color flour sack, paisley, checked, flowered or striped, had been as important as its contents. Mothers had turned the sacks into housedresses, children's playsuits, shorts, curtains, bedspreads and towels. Cried one Red Oak, Ga., wife: "We can live on crackers and cornbread if we have to. But we can't send our children to school naked...
...Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...
...Buenos Aires rumor was right, the election might never come off, Strong Man Candidate Juan Domingo Perón might be planning a Putsch. The reasons: 1) bickering in his own camp (a fortnight before election his backers still could not agree on minor candidates); 2) the well-mobilized organization that turned out 150,000 enthusiasts in Buenos Aires last week to cheer the Democratic Union's Candidate Jose P. Tamborini...
...hard-dying rumor, but no fact. Stokowski was born in London, to a Polish father, Josef Boleslaw Kopernicus Stokowski, and an Irish mother...
...felt attracted to Wilson's idealism, amused by Coolidge's shyness, repelled by Hoover's icy remoteness, but Clapper did his dogged best to exclude these personal feelings from what he wrote. One Roosevelt story that Clapper never wrote, and his widow now tells, concerns a rumor that spread through Washington that Henry Morgenthau would become Ambassador to France. Franklin Roosevelt heard of it, jotted off a note to his Treasury Secretary: "Henry, see by the newspapers you are going to Paris. . . . As Al Smith is reported to have wired the Pope after the 1928 election...