Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even a special session of the Kansas Legislature, meeting last week to approve social security amendments to the State Constitution, could budge Nominee Alf M. Landon from his resolve to keep mum on national issues until his acceptance speech in Topeka next week...
Last week the British Foreign Office with record rapidity posted a reply to Dictator Kamâl Atatürk assuring him of a treaty-revising conference "without delay." Soviet Russia hastened to assure Turkey of its backing. Though the Italian Foreign Office kept mum, Italian officials privately protested that "a situation would be created equally serious as Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact." Except from Italy's point of view, this was hardly true. The original peace treaty with Turkey was the ignominious Treaty of Sévres which stripped Turkey and partitioned it into French...
Meantime Republican outsiders continued hopefully to expose themselves to the lightning. Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg kept mum in Washington, but photographs of the Vandenberg home were beginning to circulate through the Press. In Columbus, Old Guardsman Ogden L. Mills pounded away at "demoralized" New Deal spending. In Manhattan, Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. hazarded an eight-point landing on the Republican platform. In Sacramento, Governor Frank Merriam announced that he was not opposing friends' efforts on his behalf. In Chicago, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden opened up campaign headquarters...
...live, rushed it to the O'Haras' home in Pawtucket. There last week Sox, wasted from 20 to 6½ lb., was under constant care of two veterinarians and Mrs. O'Hara. Finder Kelley, more concerned with his creditors than with Sox's health, kept mum about what he would do with his $1,000 windfall...
This was parroted by German officials high & low last week while the Realmleader kept mum. Every wiseacre in Europe was saying that win, lose or draw for Italy, the Ethiopian war must prove a victory for Germany. If II Duce is permitted or succeeds anyhow in snatching colonial territory, Der Führer after that can scarcely be halted eventually in his announced purpose of "redeeming" the onetime Imperial German overseas colonies now held by other Great Powers. If on the other hand, Dictator Mussolini is balked by the League of Nations, the Italian attitude toward France is sure...