Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scuttlebutt was busy weeks before blunt, soldierly Thomas Holcomb retired as Commandant of the Marine Corps, full of honors and the first four-star general in the history of the Corps. Rumor's net at that time (New Year's): General Holcomb was going to join the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff. This week the rumor was abandoned in favor of other and sounder information...
Officers were instructed to halt non-saluting G.I.s, take names and numbers, put them on report. G.I.s were told to halt any officer failing to return a salute, give him the same treatment. One ugly rumor was that G.I. provocateurs, who had previously saluted only officers with packages, were hunting the unthinking...
...time the trial rolled around there might be other victims-victims of eager political rumor and diligent speculation. Briggs pleaded not guilty. The trial was weeks away. For how many men was Briggs the goat? How much smoke proves a fire? There was plenty of time. Republican Senator William Langer of North Dakota, who had made a 57-page speech when he introduced the full cast of the mystery to the Senate, announced that he planned to make another...
...British diplomacy. The British have been reluctant to embargo Argentina. Not only do they need Argentine beef, but they have large investments in handling it. Nevertheless, they may well have outbluffed the Argentines. Or the British may have made the most of Nazi connections with high Argentine officials (rumor mentioned even Perón himself). In any case, the sudden break of relations was a welcome relief for the British, since it made an embargo unthinkable, left British interests intact...
First Blood. Whatever Pravda meant with its "rumor from Cairo," the consequences of publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many...