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...version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly mum. In San Antonio, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association bleated: "The trade is taking these wools in preference to ours...
This was pretty official on Term IV; its acknowledgment could come from only one higher source. That source, as usual, was mum...
Last week the President, besides being mum...
...swiftly to take advantage of this diplomatic blunder. Last week American Aviation Daily flatly stated that the U.S. had won landing rights for U.S. commercial airplanes in Spain. The State Department, presumably because of still pending negotiations (which might involve the release of Italian ships in Spanish harbors), remained mum...
...Filipinos who fought the Jap through Bataan and on Corregidor, and who now suffer the full measure of Jap co-prosperity, Manuel Quezon is an undying symbol of Philippine independence. Both Manuel Quezon and goodman Osmeña were mum last week. In the end, the ticklish question of the Presidential tenure will almost certainly be settled by the White House...