Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave up writing," says Garvin, "I suppose I should die." He has signed a fat contract to write a weekly piece for Beaverbrook's Sunday Express-"but without the Asterisks" (a Garvinesque pun). Meanwhile, although the Observer was mum on the subject, the possible new editor of the Observer was Arthur Mann, BBC governor and ex-editor of the Yorkshire Post, which first cracked open the Wally Simpson scandal in Britain...
...editor of Liberty. Last week Editor Oursler too was out. Liberty's new editor is 58-year-old Sheppard Butler, who quit the same job when Macfadden bought Liberty from Cousins Joe Patterson and Bertie McCormick in 1931. Editor Oursler, busy with a novel and a play, kept mum about the reasons for his departure and his 10,000 shares of Macfadden stock (market price: $1.25 per share...
...Roosevelt, who had been faintly critical, moved in as assistant director. Young (21), dimpled Jane Seaver, dew-fresh out of Mt. Holyoke, was appointed to the task of organizing youth. Other lady colleagues moved in. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., perched next to Mrs. Roosevelt, mysteriously shuffled papers, kept mum. The Little Flower flapped his wings, screeched orders, left behind many a moist hanky clenched in an angry fist...
...Roger said he had been notified that the heretofore independent Commandos would be turned over to the Army. The War Office remained mum, gave no hint that he was correct or who his successor would be. War-wise Londoners chalked up the gaunt, garrulous Sir Roger as another victim of politics-in-the-military, were convinced that Winston Churchill himself had engineered the pigeonholing...
...these criticisms the War Department, not even admitting that it had forced the Hill-Crow resignations, remained officially mum. But its position was clear. The Army considered the Hill management responsible for the long strike and its effect on defense production. (Said one Army spokesman: "They didn't know what year it was.") The Government has the power to take over such a plant and buy it if necessary. Therefore the Army believed that it also had the right to negotiate with directors and stockholders for a management that would please it better...