Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration has followed the policy of keeping mum on who receives the honorary degrees until Commencement day. A recipient has to be present at the exercises in order to receive degree. Two notable exceptions are Generals Marshall and MacArthur, both of whom were offered degrees in absentia in 1946. Marshall took his degree a the following Commencement, when he delivered an address on the Marshall Plan. MacArthur is still in line for his degree whenever he accepts the University's invitation...
...soon as Dreier's lawyer heard the testimony, he asked the court to dismiss the case, and the suit was summarily dropped. Last week Mayor Dreier was sitting mum in office while the district attorney looked over the record to see if there were grounds for criminal action. Said a headline in the Philadelphia Bulletin: PEOPLE OF NANTICOKE ASK "WHERE'S OUR MAYOR SINCE HE DROPPED THAT $100,000 LIBEL SUIT...
...word from Secretary of State Dean Acheson would have corrected this assumption, but the Secretary kept mum. His enemies, notably Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, charged that Clubb had been cleared through Acheson's personal intervention. Last week Acheson felt compelled to tell the story of just what happened...
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Local boosters and realty boards were not anxious to shout about this creeping threat to their real-estate values, but Water Engineer Oswald A. Gierlich of Manhattan Beach refused to keep mum. He knew that the west basin's gravel recharges very slowly, that fresh water comes a long distance from inland mountains and filters through gaps in an impermeable barrier called the Inglewood-Newport Fault (see diagram). The invading sea water moves much faster. Gierlich figured that, if nothing were done, sea water would fill the whole basin in about ten years and permanently spoil the vital wells...