Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Intelligence Division-G-2 in Army lingo-is the eyes & ears of the General Staff. It coordinates diplomatic and military information from all over the world, sifts rumor from fact, breaks down enemy codes, estimates the strength of friend & foe, charts international trends, figures out possible military moves...
There was also Frau Edit von Coler. She lived at the Athene Palace, but never gave people more than a glimpse as she whisked across the lobby or drove down the Calea Victoriei in her "long grey Mercedes." Rumor said that she was Himmler's sister and a modern Mata Hari. Says the Countess Waldeck: "Mata Hari and her sisters were dumbbells in an era when bare skin was supposed to make generals lose their heads. . . . [Frau von Coler] was not Hitler's spy, but a Hitler propagandist. . . . And to make friends and influence people," adds the Countess...
Lowell House dining hall, seat of the whispered rumor, was filled last night with reports of past outings of the Stephens' girls sweeping such spots as Hollywood like a plague of locusts...
...spite of U.S. fears that stiff, independent old General Emilio Aguinaldo (who led the Philippine Insurrection in 1899) might head a Vichyfied government, nothing had been heard of General Aguinaldo. A Jap-inspired rumor that Manuel Quezon's old friend and secretary, Jorge Vargas, had sold out to the invaders, in return for a job as mayor of Manila, was promptly squelched by Manuel Quezon himself. Said President Quezon: "I appointed [Vargas] Mayor of Greater Manila ... in line with MacArthur's plans ... to maintain order and prevent looting...
...deal with the real thing. The Society of Heroes worked for independence by violence, especially assassination, if possible by the knife; the Exploding Party, also working for independence, chose the bomb. Most shocking revelation of Japan's fear of Koreans came in the Tokyo earthquake. Then, because the rumor grew that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster to blow up bridges, cut wires, Japanese went into a wave of hysteria that made the Orson Welles broadcast scare look like a session of the Supreme Court. When it was over, at least 500 (perhaps as many...