Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death, Manhattan's PM had won three reprieves from Owner Marshall Field. Last week, he finally found a buyer. He sold a "majority interest" in his tabloid to San Francisco Lawyer Bartley C. Crum and Joseph Barnes, foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. They were mum on how much they paid-and who was backing them. But they said they had "adequate" cash to continue PM, now losing $15,000 a week. (Minority Stockholder Field will still foot part of the loss...
...campaigner, he stumps tirelessly, touring the whole 1,000-mile length of the state with his driver, shaking hands and making small talk. Until he announced for the presidency last November, he stuck to California problems, kept mum on most national and international issues...
Last week McDonald was sure that he had finally tuned in on his market. He announced that Zenith's hearing-aid division had chalked up a handsome profit, though he was mum on the figures (they "were too good to say anything about to competitors...
Though Hill Jr. kept mum on his plans, tobaccomen did not think he intended to stay out of the company his grandfather and father had built to its present size.The scuttlebutt was that Hill Jr. hoped to stir up enough support from stockholders to get back in on his own terms...
Montreal's press kept editorially mum, but Ontario's staunchly conservative Toronto Globe & Mail thundered: "Today the padlock law is used against a paper which is unpopular and weak. Tomorrow it can be used against any political foe which the Union Nationale Government chooses to regard as offensive...