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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...
...doesn't expect to lose. She has put her big, rambling suburban house up for sale and plans to move into a smaller one. At week's end, old Tribune Reporter Boettiger was back in his old Chicago haunts, seeing about a new job. He was mum about his plans because "my situation hasn't jelled...
...Banks, which have been buying U.S. bonds whenever necessary to keep up their prices, decided that they were too high. The long-term bonds have been selling anywhere from one to three points above par. When the Federal Reserve Banks stopped buying, prices promptly dropped. Although Federal Reserve was mum on the new support level, Wall Streeters guessed that it might be just a shade above...
...Last autumn my dad was mortal sick, and the doctor gave us a priority order for extra coal to keep him warm. The coal came five weeks after we buried him. Mum was sick too. The doctor gave us another priority order. She died in March; her coal came three weeks later. What do you do? You can't refuse coal, even if the reason for it is gone. At least Dad's coal helped Mum...
...Washington, Army & Navy officials remained mum. But Dr. Francis Reichelderfer, chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, took a stormy view of the Miami suggestion. Said he: "The Weather Bureau has no evidence which would indicate that artificial factors had anything to do with the development of the hurricane. There have been other hurricanes which behaved just as erratically." In fact, there was a hurricane back in 1906 which did just about the same thing, "and that was long before we ever heard...