Word: mum
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...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...
...Briton hates to think of U.S. movies, U.S. ways, U.S. "vulgarity" influencing British culture. Of the two, the American is the touchier. If some excitable Colonel Blimp had thrown a turnip at Ambassador Winant, the U.S. would have hit the international ceiling. Last week Britons were politely, politicly mum...
...Chinese students at Thunderbird last week were traditionally inscrutable. Mum on all matters, they admitted only that they were "velly happy...
Heinrich Bruening, Harvard's mum-keeping Littauer Professor of Government and ex-Chancellor of Germany, bounced back into the headlines yesterday, after negotiated peace rumors, named him as key figure...
...Glamor Tennist Alice Marble got a $1-a-year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country...