Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Clarence Gauss, called home by the State Department, returned to Washington, conferred briefly with the President, was mum to reporters. Then he left for a vacation in California. Even Mr. Gauss would be surprised if he went to Chungking as Ambassador again...
...Farley, who can talk out on occasion, was mum about his trip. But along the way he had dropped some significant remarks. To the Texas Legislature: "I sincerely hope and trust by the time another Presidential election rolls around we'll have this war behind us so we will be able to decide the Presidency on domestic issues. . . ." To newsmen in Dallas: "I hope the voters pick the Democrats in 1944-but if they don't, it's all right with...
...obscure railway siding at Adana, Churchill and his party camouflaged themselves as tourists (shorts and shotguns) to meet Turkey's Premier Sükrü Saracoglu. The Turks were pleased by Churchill's visit, stayed eloquently mum about the prospects of their joining the Allies...
...fact or propaganda, there was no doubt about the crippling effect of the U-boat campaign. The Associated Press's unofficial tally of Allied shipping losses in the western Atlantic alone reached 587 this week.* The success of anti-U-boat operations, about which the Navy kept mum, might be judged in part by the success the Japanese have had against U.S. submarines about which the Navy had more to say. Against a record of hits on more than 150 Jap vessels, only three U.S. submarines have been reported overdue and presumably lost...
Paunchy, sharp-chinned Frank Buchman, ailing in a Saratoga Springs hotel, was mum...