Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Leader Hitler kept mum last week, Minister of Economics Dr. Kurt Schmitt told the Storm Troopers why. "We must destroy as little as possible and build up as much as possible," he sweetly reasoned. "Department stores cannot simply be wiped out of Germany. They employ a quarter of a million people and a billion marks are invested in them...
...Ever since the U.S. helped Cuba win independence from Spain, Cuban sugar has enjoyed a U.S. tariff preference of 20%. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would use his executive power to raise this preferential to 50%. In Washington the President, careful not to antagonize U.S. sugar interests, was publicly mum about his Cuban sugar policy last week, but at least one member of the new Cuban Cabinet seemed to think he knew what it was. This knowing member was Edouardo J. Chibas, President of the Cuban Society of Engineers and an exile living in Washington and New York until...
...Astronomer Willis saw it. The Potsdam Astro-Physical Laboratory said that Dr. Weber, Reich Bureau of Standards physicist, had spotted the spot one hour before Comedian Hay. Impression created was that both the Potsdam Laboratory and the British Association, when they heard from their respective informants, had kept discreetly mum until something more could be ascertained...
...peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." Last week the Oppositionists, though their leaders still maintained contact with Mediator Welles, broadcast throughout Cuba from a pirate radio station: "Make these August strikes the August Revolution!" Ambassador Welles, after keeping completely mum through a long series of conferences with President Machado, finally said, "The situation is so grave that it is impossible to forecast what may develop." Ambassador Welles was correct. Few days later on a false rumor that President Machado had resigned, all Havana went wild with joy. Huge crowds poured...
...family. Sterling did no retailing hut manufactured a large assortment of patent medicines which it had bought up in the course of years. It made Cascarets, Danderine, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, Bayer's Aspirin (bought from the Alien Property Custodian in 1919), Mum, California Syrup of Figs, etc. It was evident in the beginning that the marriage between these two parties could never be complete. For Sterling would have lost much of its market if its nationally famed products had been sold only in Rexall and Liggett stores, and conversely United Drug...