Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dimitri Mitropoulos, tight-lipped conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, denying rumors that he would replace Serge Koussevitzky as conductor of the Boston Symphony, playfully started a rumor of his own: "I am going to conduct a symphony ... in the Aleutians, and Koussevitzky is going to Berlin...
...rumor rustled through the narrow, cobblestoned streets of the historic city: plans were being made for housing the new League of Nations in Quebec...
...German people might well be beyond fear and past credulity. Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels could stamp his clubfoot in impotent rage. Uncontrolled rumor had replaced controlled news. The Germans heard such rumors as these...
This first phony peace rumor hardly had a chance to be denied last week before a new one cropped up. In San Francisco, a flash arrived from SHAEF: Eisenhower says Germans are whipped. Hearst's International News Service sent out an announcement that Germany had quit. Los Angeles Radio Station KHJ repeated...
Last week balding, tireless Correspondent Lochner, 58, was hard at it. His latest stories seemed as Sax Rohmerish as the "informed" reports that stream incessantly from the rumor factories of Stockholm, Lisbon and Berne. But many a U.S. editor, recalling Lochner's Pulitzer prestige, gingerly played them deadpan. Sample Lochner...