Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, the 15 have been in prison since last December. The government kept mum until everything had been properly arranged. Then the Deputy Foreign Minister Topencharov announced that all of the accused had "fully confessed" to the old familiar charges: treason, black-marketeer-ing and espionage...
...right to an impartial trial. In the nine years in which Rule 904 has been in force the press has never seriously challenged it. When in doubt, an editor usually calls up a judge to ask what to print. So last July the city's dailies kept obediently mum on the confession, though Washington (D.C.) papers, which circulate in Baltimore, carried it. Local radio stations broadcast the story-and were cited for contempt of court for violating the judges' rule...
Four for One. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that it would split its 11,158,207 shares of common stock 4 for 1 if stockholders approved. Though Du Pont kept mum on its reason for the split-up, brokers guessed it was to broaden the market for its stock, which has fluctuated widely on slim sales (day of the announcement Du Pont stock jumped 8⅛ to 179¾). It would also give Du Pont more common shares than any other U.S. corporation...
...long as possible (i.e., until the Communists took over completely, as they have in Mukden, forcing ECA to shut up shop; 2) the State Department, which has made no pronouncement of its political position toward China since the start of the recent Communist military successes, continued to be absolutely mum...
Dealers thought that the new Victor record would make things even worse. Though Victor was mum on its record, the industry expects it to go on sale early in 1949, and RCA was reportedly dickering with Capitol Records and Decca to make the record standard for the industry...