Word: scuttlebutt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly four terms, and after ten years as state auditor he was picked in 1962 to take on Democratic Governor Mike DiSalle. Take him Rhodes did, by the largest majority ever in an Ohio gubernatorial election. Rhodes' second four-year term is near ly up, and statehouse scuttlebutt has it that the popular and efficient Governor may try for a U.S. Senate seat next year...
...Endicott Peabody '42, a man with similar problems. But when Volpe began campaigning again in 1963 his speech habits had apparently improved; he was incisive, witty, articulate and had even begun to cultivate the clipped Kennedy-Saltonstall "a," which in Massachusetts separates the statesmen from the pols. The scuttlebutt is that Volpe took speech lessons while out of office...
Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...
Pope and his maumetry"), and jolly sectarian scuttlebutt about such adulterous priests as the one who, "haunting to an honest man's wife, was subtly taken creeping through a window, and hanged out of the window in a gin laid for him of purpose." The body of his book recites in grisly detail and with respectable accuracy the martyrology of a mournful century in which as many as 84 Englishmen in a single year were burned as "filthye Hereticks...
According to scuttlebutt in the aviation industry, TWA and Pan Am have conceived a technique for finessing Hughes which seems a bit too clever. Heart of this maneuver would be to have the smaller TWA (net worth: $74 million) technically acquire Pan Am (net worth: $135 million). In fact. Juan Trippe would almost certainly dominate the merged line. The takeover by TWA of Pan Am would be a mere formality, but it would oblige TWA to issue such vast new blocks of stock to compensate Pan Am holders that Hughes's interest in the merged airline would be reduced...