Word: mum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coaxing Ambassador Gibson was at last gotten firmly up on the rostrum and all opposition was squelched. "My government would have preferred a resolution accepting still more definitely the details of the President's plan," said Mr. Gibson, "but the American Delegation feels the present resolution contains the maxi mum of agreement which can now be achieved...
...reentry. Meher Baba, said Sponsor Schloss, would bring to the U. S. an "infinite state." In July he would break his silence with an internationally broadcast talk. What Meher Baba did was eat, play ping pong and cricket with his followers, many of them socialites, at Harmon. Still keeping mum, the God Man visited San Francisco, suddenly went to Shanghai where he stayed one day, "for spiritual reasons." Last week Meher Baba was to have spoken. But he changed his mind, announced through his secretary that "conditions are not yet ripe." He indicated they would be ripe next February...
...Trust is managed by the young, pretty, blonde wife of Premier Molotov (TIME, June 13), close friend of young, brunette Mme Stalin. For good measure tart Beatrice Webb added: "Some of the young women I saw at Caucasian seaside resorts were dressed far too smartly." Shrewd Sidney Webb kept mum. The Soviet censor passed Beatrice Webb's blurt...
...nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps mum on liquor. Coleman Livingston Blease, a Wet-drinking Dry trying to get back into the Senate, declares: "My people voted for Prohibition and I'll stand for it until they vote again...
...executive committee of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. (with which his Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. was merged in February). While president of the Michigan Bankers' Association he discovered that national banks might branch with the Comptroller of the Currency's permission. He kept mum, went to New York to purchase the old Phenix Bank. After merging the Chatham Bank, he acquired several others which he operated as branches. Bets as high as $5,000 were made that he would be stopped. Permission was granted by the Comptroller, a written opinion obtained from the Attorney General...