Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCormack: "Why does not my good friend be big enough . . . and say that he was wrong in believing the rumors? Why try to get out of this position by trying to create another rumor...
...Knutson told his colleagues about "the rumor that Fala, that little Scotty dog, had been inadvertently left behind at the Aleutians on the [President's] return trip, and that they did not discover the absence of the little doggie until the party reached Seattle, and that it is rumored a destroyer was sent a thousand miles to fetch...
President Schram's warning closed the barn door a little late: rumors had already touched off a buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker...
...week's end the Vatican's Osservatore Romano took a sharper stand: it denied the Stoneman "rumor." Further, it openly berated the Russians for not aiding the Warsaw Underground (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Said the London Observer: "Recent Russian overtures for Vatican friendship have found favor with certain church princes who still dream about Catholic expansion in Russia. The Pope, however, seems for the time being to have decided against reconciliation with Russia, and the fate of Catholic Poland provided his overriding motives...
...London's Tribune was moved to a Wellsian note by a rumor that a German super-rocket bomb, launched two weeks ago, had not yet been heard from. Said the Tribune, in interplanetary vein: "If that world [hit by the runaway rocket] happens to be inhabited by people who have reached our own level of 'civilization,' they may regard it as an act of hostility. . . .Are we on the eve of war between worlds before we have got ourselves tidied up on earth...