Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwing Weight. Last week, according to the rumor mills in Switzerland and Sweden, Himmler went to the Führer's headquarters and raged against the "con servatism" of the Wehrmacht generals. In the old days, it was Hitler who raged. Last week Himmler was said to have jugged or sent to the rear one field marshal, six generals and 240 other officers accused of dickering with the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee...
Like the ghost of a bad debt, the rumor that Soviet Russia might some day pay off the defaulted dollar bonds of the Tsars has haunted Wall Street for years. To speculators it is a highly profitable wraith...
Phil "How're yaw'll" Masquelette, roommate of "the Light," currently has the eagers for a Pine Manor miss, says Dame Rumor. Red Summers, authority on anything but women, claims to have been hitched early in his career, but Kewpie O'Donnell is telling a great untruth. Tunstall "Pal" Perry, uncoverer of much information, seeks any help that can be offered him by anyone. If you have any old information that you are about to dispose of, see "Pal"--he wants...
...newsworthy rumor slipped through Brazilian censorship last week. Latest victim of Dictator Getulio Vargas' chronic purge was Air General Eduardo Gomes, the last of the leading revolutionary liberals of 1930 to hold a high government post. He was reported to be the leader of the clandestine, anti-Vargas National Democratic Union (TIME, Jan. 1). Relieved of the airforce command which made him potentially dangerous to the Dictator, Gomes may go to Washington as a military observer...
...stock split started Wall Street buzzing with rumors that L. & N. would soon be merged with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., which controls 51% of L. & N. stock. But L. & N. directors denied the rumor. Their only announced reason for cutting the value of the stork 50%: more investors can now afford...