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Promptly the Munich judge ruled, "You must answer the lawyer. The Court has no questions." But Witness Hitler kept mum as an owl, sat with arms folded while his brownshirt followers filled the courtroom with a chant of "Germany awake! Awake!! Awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Contempt | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Taking the standoffish attitude of a soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty in protecting the Socialist Republic." General Puga, mum as an owl, retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Progressive Socialism | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

Under iron fiscal decrees, sanctioned by President von Hindenburg, a German citizen receiving income from abroad today must exchange all his foreign money into marks. Author Remarque, who founded and heads a writers' colony at Monte Verita, Switzerland, kept mum there last week when told of the seizure of his 20,000 mark ($4,760) Berlin account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: All Unquiet | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...with his chief at the Hotel du Rhin. anxiously arrived. As Herr Littorin pushed into the bedroom President Kreuger, dressed in a business suit, seemed peacefully asleep upon his bed. Manhattan's Stock Exchange was still open. The French police were instructed by a Cabinet Minister to keep mum. Even when selling of Kreuger & Toll in Wall Street became so fast & furious that 25.5% of all shares traded were of this issue, no U. S. news agency thought to cable Paris for news of the Match King. His friends announced his death after all world markets closed. Swedish Match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Sleeping | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...Italian Ambassador called at the hospital, went away mum. Recently all Belgium had been hearing stories (TIME, March 16) of how Belgian Princess Maria Jose had quarreled in Rome with her bridegroom, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Press-guessing began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 6, 1931 | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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