Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists. The reason why they gather a following is because they are the only ones who will listen to a man's story and try to do something about it. They're sympathetic. A crowd will gather around while one of them talks but just let a rumor get around that jobs can be had at some other place and pretty soon the crowd will be gone...
...several days last week the closest of state secrets. In a general way Austrian-born Adolf Hitler was known to be moving warily about South Germany, watching every phase of the bloody crisis in his Motherland from a ringside position. But one morning Munich buzzed with an arresting rumor: "He talked last night to The Man With the Cleft Nose...
Prime reason for its swift extinction was that it lacked the vital organs necessary to make a general strike succeed. It did not shut off the city's light, water, or food supplies. It did not silence the newspapers, throwing the city into a state of rumor-ridden ignorance about what was going on. If Labor had dared to go to these extremes, it would have had a frantic San Francisco by the throat. As it was, instead of paralyzing, the strike only pinched, inviting citizens and Government to rise and stamp out their tormentor...
...doubtful whether he would so generously remember Bishop Flaget who presented a purse of other people's money. 2) Bishop Flaget called on Louis Philippe in France between 1835 and 1839, was received coldly. 3) The Congressmen who introduced the tariff-exemption bills may unwittingly have been quoting rumor; besides a report of the Congressmen's speeches there are no governmental records of Louis Philippe's sending the pictures; the customs' invoice for the articles consigned to Bishop Flaget does not enumerate the articles, name the shipper. 4) It is likely that the St. Joseph...
Next day Warsaw's Jewish newspapers scare-headed stories that half a dozen gentile "witches" had distributed poison candy in the ghetto, throwing the candy from speeding automobiles. Rumor counted seven boys and girls dead. Warsaw's Mayor Koscialkowski ordered the Jewish newspaper editions confiscated. When a delegation of Jews waited on him, he promised the Jewish population (some 100.000) of Warsaw full protection, but added significantly: "The government does not underestimate the danger of a civil war between the Jewish and Christian populations...