Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt had come back from an inspiring look at the country (see p. 15) in a critical mood. He vented his distaste for Congress (which in spite of its inclinations was just giving him inflation control), for the press (which against all its news instincts had kept totally mum about his trip) and for members of his own Administration (who had been trying to do the very best they knew how). To the three victims this was ingratitude. They felt hurt and thoroughly...
...learn the "truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions: "The war situation in Alaska is serious but not alarming. . . . The military plan is to pulverize...
Many survivors, said the tight-lipped Admiralty, were picked up. Others from the Manchester were believed to have reached the Tunisian coast. On total losses the British were mum, although they claimed destruction of two Axis U-boats. At week's end they issued a stoical report...
...Coast Guard kept mum about the spy's origin. But it did concede that Neddie and Grant broke up a radio station which for months had sent messages to sea-roving Nazi submarines. In Rye, proud citizens are out to get Government heroes' medals for the boys...
General DeWitt, as he has right along, kept mum. As military dictator over 12,000,000 apprehensive citizens in eight States and Alaska, General DeWitt was credited by the Army with having done a superb administrative job. Since Pearl Harbor, without fuss, he has moved thousands of Coast Japanese to places of safekeeping for the duration, has closed race tracks, bidden Pasadena's big Rose Bowl game go East...