Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elephant for his son. He was unstable, seldom held a job for long. One of his few recorded jobs was chair pushing at the New York World's Fair. Example of his psychopathic unscrupulousness: his marriage to Heiress (about $6,000,000) Patricia Burton, especially if the rumor about Lonergan and Burton is true. Lonergan eloped with his wife against her mother's wishes...
...Resistance. The rest was silence. Now & then a report crept through. Edouard Herriot, under strict house arrest in his 72nd year, was very old, very tired. Americans interned at Vittel had a glimpse of him when his Vichy gaolers brought him to a villa in the old watering place. Rumor said that he was suffering from an incurable ailment. One day the jailers hustled him on to Nancy, not far from the German frontier. There, some time in the fall of 1943, death came to Edouard Herriot, but not to his words, not to his memory...
...currently engaged by postwar planning at home and abroad. He thinks it stinks. He envisions nothing better than a world of roaring red Communism overseas. . . . He has a remarkable native instinct for fearing that he and his fellows are being jobbed. . . . His protests [are] bolstered by anecdote, rumor and unqualified statements based on what some people think might be going...
...even sweeter to the company's white-haired president, Dr. Willard H. Dow, was the deathblow the Committee gave to the popular belief that the U.S. magnesium shortage was due to an agreement between Dow, Alcoa and Germany's I.G. Farben. Under that deal-so the libelous rumor ran-Dow magnesium manufacture was limited, while German production was kited. Other agreements brought antitrust indictments down on the heads of Dow and Alcoa in 1941, forced them to pay $140,000 in fines after pleading nolo contendere ("We couldn't spend months in court and still have time...
...gaining strength after a stroke. Last Nov. 7, when the Russian Revolution which she helped to make was 26 years old, a river of people took 45 minutes to flow up the legation's broad stairway and pass Her Excellency in her wheelchair. About once a year a rumor spreads that Kollontay has been summoned home to answer for her sumptuous way of life. Just as often she has returned to her villa in the Villagatan. A lovely holiday, she blandly reports...