Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the new National Labor Relations Board, sent the Board's chief examiner, P. A. Donoghue, to San Francisco. The Labor Department ordered a conciliator up from Dallas. But the Federal Government showed reluctance to embroil itself further. At her Washington desk sat Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, mum...
...Pacific aboard the Houston President Roosevelt heard of what was going on. He, too, was mum. Meantime Robert H. Hinckley, special representative of the Relief Administration, bobbed up unexpectedly in San Francisco, briskly announced: "Nobody is going to suffer from lack of food in San Francisco. The U. S. Government will see to that. At present we are canvassing the situation and are awaiting results. . . . If a dire situation develops, we will do something and do it quick...
...finding in London, just before Sir Bernard left, of a pair of legs in a suitcase left at King's Cross Station which proved to be the legs of the Brighton torso. As he went to work Sir Bernard Spilsbury preserved the Sherlock Holmes tradition of keeping mum, but he had his Dr. Watson in Chief Detective Pelling. The sole clue seemed to be that both legs and torso were wrapped in the same sort of brown wrapping paper and on the paper around the torso appeared the letters "f o r d.'' Chief Detective Pelling titillated...
...months the Midwest has cringed under a reign of terror. For every kidnapping and extortion reported in the Press, perhaps a dozen others went unrecorded as respectable citizens had their first terrifying contact with crime and kept mum about it. Last week a new chapter in the history of Midwest crime was being forced upon them, a chapter less terrifying to most men individually, but one that reached unmatched heights of daredevil ruthlessness. It was the third chapter in the career of Desperado John Dillinger...
...unable to identify as the Treasury the building in which "dollars and quarters grow." Taken on Grandfather's yacht to Mount Vernon, he succeeded in ripping great tears in his patriotic suit. Scheming to get a new suit he crawled into Grandmother's knitting bag, kept mum when she took it and him away on a flying trip. High in the air Scamper's paws went to sleep. When he moved, he was discovered as a stowaway. Grandmother, distressed at his torn clothes, converted a partially finished green sweater into a rabbit jacket before the trip...