Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington buzzed last week with whispers about the significance of CAB's action. Rumors were: the State Department wanted to reinforce its Good Neighbor policy; the President wanted to bring Pan Am to heel; the Army likewise; the British sought a foothold in the Caribbean. Most widely heard rumor: CAB had wanted to retreat to its former position, grant no certificates to foreign companies until the entire U.S. foreign air policy had been formulated, but it was summoned into executive session, and persuaded to take action by the State Department's Adolf A. Berle...
...from under a sofa. As a foreign correspondent, Hope, who could easily receive the award for the world's worst newspaperman, has been in Europe, where he has managed to miss out on almost every important event, including the beginning of the Russian War. He dubs this a vicious rumor. His paper, the Amalgamated Press, recalls him and in a few brief words, Hope is ejected from the office by a none too friendly managing editor...
Harvard College will become coeducational, announced the Boston Globe last week. The United Press put the rumor on the wires, soon had to follow it with Harvard's denial. "Globe Baloney," said the undergraduate Harvard Crimson.* Its editors supported what was really under way - some administrative consolidation of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...More impassioned were Yale editors in 1924 when plans for a Nursing School inspired the rumor that Yale might go coed. "The cry arises," cried the Yale Daily News, "Keep the undergraduate schools homosexual...
...Philadelphia, Frank X. Daily, has shown more than his usual concern over the coming and going of the mail man. Could it be that Frank is looking for a letter from Mr. Joy? It is well known that Frank takes regular trips to Philly to court one Gloria Joy. Rumor has it that Frank, being a proper, if a bit old fashioned lad, has written Papa Joy for permission to wed Gloria...