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...still a potent force in Pennsylvania politics despite his 89 years, surprised nobody by joining the Taft camp. That raised a new flurry of speculation over the intentions of Grundy's friend, Governor John S. Fine, who controls 32 uncommitted delegates to the Republican Convention, but Fine stayed mum...
...administration has followed the policy of keeping mum on who receives the honorary degrees until Commencement day. A recipient has to be present at the exercises in order to receive degree. Two notable exceptions are Generals Marshall and MacArthur, both of whom were offered degrees in absentia in 1946. Marshall took his degree a the following Commencement, when he delivered an address on the Marshall Plan. MacArthur is still in line for his degree whenever he accepts the University's invitation...
...soon as Dreier's lawyer heard the testimony, he asked the court to dismiss the case, and the suit was summarily dropped. Last week Mayor Dreier was sitting mum in office while the district attorney looked over the record to see if there were grounds for criminal action. Said a headline in the Philadelphia Bulletin: PEOPLE OF NANTICOKE ASK "WHERE'S OUR MAYOR SINCE HE DROPPED THAT $100,000 LIBEL SUIT...
...word from Secretary of State Dean Acheson would have corrected this assumption, but the Secretary kept mum. His enemies, notably Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, charged that Clubb had been cleared through Acheson's personal intervention. Last week Acheson felt compelled to tell the story of just what happened...
...Mum jumble's been telling...