Word: mum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumania, since Hohenzollern King Carol's youngest sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
...with President Roosevelt to announce that he did not care to discuss the Virgin Islands any further. No sooner had he departed than Senators Tydings, Harrison and Robinson trooped into the White House for a full hour's heart-to-heart with the President. They too marched out mum, but Senator Tydings hurried over to the Senate caucus room, recessed his investigation...
...Chinese enemy commanders who deserted to his side. Last week, however, though General Ho apparently yielded to all Japan's demands in the name of his Government, there was no confirmation from Nanking or wily, wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek. The entire Chinese Government kept mum...
...please to meet you, Captain!" cackled Dusty. "I knew your mum...
...Government departments kept mum. Mexico City newsorgans played down any mention as "rumor," except La Prensa which appeared with the screamer "ARCHBISHOP DISAPPEARED." After a long night and day of mystery he reappeared...