Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Angrily, Franco ordered the border shut. A division of his army moved into the raided region. Rumor said that the Spanish dictator might well use some 10,000 German soldiers who had escaped to Spain from France, that he had offered to help the Gaullist Government clean up "the Spanish Maquis problem...
Archduke Otto of Austria, at last report a glossy, uninvited onlooker at the Quebec Conference (TIME, Oct. 3), was the center of a wild rumor spread by peace-hungry Austrians in the hope of early deliverance from Nazi hands. The story: 31-year-old Pretender Otto had married 18-year-old Svetlana Stalin, only daughter of The Kremlin...
There is a rumor snowballing up on this coast that the reason the market has been exhausted of popular-brand cigarets is because they are being shipped to civilian populaces of European countries. Is it true...
...break came last week in the fog of rumor which has swirled about the Fisher Brothers since they quit General Motors (TiME, Aug. 14). The Brothers filed incorporation papers in Lansing, Mich, for two new companies, Fisher Brothers, Inc. and Fisher Motor Car Co. (They had previously incorporated in Delaware.) The companies, each of which has 1,000 shares of no par common stock, declared their purpose to design, manufacture, sell, repair and deal in airplanes, automobiles and "any & all automotive products." As usual, the Fishers kept their actual plans to themselves. Detroit's guess: the Fisher plans...
Readiness to spread and act upon rumor and exaggeration is a fault to which Chinese and U.S. soldiers are especially prone. The Chinese like to indulge "the vicious habit" of self-dramatization, and flattery of their superiors. But, "of the many exaggerated stories I have heard in seven years . . . none can surpass those told by American pilots and infantrymen...