Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the state Supreme Court deliberated, the Journal diplomatically kept mum lest it be accused of trying to influence the Court. But the Journal's two G-men, Goodwin and Gregory, were still digging. They had received tips of vote-fixing in Cherokee County (55 votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated...
...peacetime competition. Big Steel would get a thriving company (with a $35 million backlog) and a fabricator for the vast production of its Geneva plant. Steelmen gossiped that Big Steel, impressed by the way Roach had pulled Consolidated off the rocks, intended to get him too. But Roach was mum about that...
Whether right or wrong the theory did not move the Democrats to tip their own hand. Boss Ed Kelly was still keeping mum, hoping for a draft call. If he did not run himself, Ed's choice would probably be Gael Sullivan, his onetime administrative assistant and now second assistant postmaster general. The choice of his underlings (who did not cotton to absentee Sullivan): big, smart State's Attorney William J. Tuohy...
From the squatters still gathered around the ground floor windows, and now were silhouettes against flickering candles, came cheerful cries: "Good night, George," "Give my love to Ernie," "Tell Mum I'm all right...
Contracts & Plans. No one will say what the present Government payroll amounts to; it is a quasi-military secret. The universities are mum. The Navy grudgingly admits that it has signed research contracts for $600,000 with M.I.T., $350,000 with the University of Chicago, $280,000 with Caltech, $220,000 with the University of Texas, $200,000 with Cornell. Undisclosed additional amounts are in the offing. All told, the Navy expects to spend some $45 million on research, much of it for basic science in universities...