Word: mumness
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...Allied High Commissioner in Rome. Cracked LaGuardia: "I understand Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count." Later he snapped at newsmen: "Don't ask silly questions." And even after President Roosevelt hinted that there might soon be a new assignment for him, the little mayor kept mum. He sent Manhattan newsmen a curt note: "I have an assignment with my dentist." Leaving City Hall that night, he rudely barked: "I'm going to clean up the streets tonight; I'm good at that...
Area No. 2 of the Quebec discussions was on the fate of postwar Germany. Here the two principals kept mum. But it was obvious that a plan for the management of postwar Germany had received much attention. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew through heavy weather to bring a brief case full of British proposals. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau rushed to Quebec, presumably to discuss monetary and economic problems of occupied Europe. And Winston Churchill had with him a close chum, Lord Cherwell, whose genius for reducing difficult problems to clear charts and graphs has recently been applied to matters of currency...
...Boeing Aircraft's Phil Johnson thought his payroll after the war would total 17,000-18,000 less than now but twice as many as prewar. But cagey President Johnson was mum about Boeing's plans to enter the non-aircraft market...
...active front (to 500 miles) put the Nazi in the highly uncomfortable position of a man standing on two chairs which are being slowly pulled apart. The Germans declared that the Red offensive had spread as far south as Tarnopol, opposite Lvov. About this sector, the Russians were mum. But on their long-range goal, they were by no means mum. The Moscow radio blared: "Russian armies are smashing westward, and . . . the game is up. The Germans squealed at our declaration that we were making straight for Berlin, but these were no empty words...
...president of bouncing Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., and perhaps, in the carnivorous auto industry, to try to take a revengeful hunk out of spry old Henry's hide. Willys, which has been hunting a president since Joseph Washington Fraser quit eight months ago, kept mum on details of the deal. But it was reported that in addition to Sorensen's salary (Ford paid him $220,000 yearly) he got an option on a sizable chunk of Willys stock.* Thus he would pay only a 25% capital-gains tax on any stock profit, provided he held the stock...