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...Taft & Dewey have claimed the majority of delegates in Indiana, Kentucky, Montana. Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wyoming. Both have claimed votes in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, although these States had selected more than one Republican delegation, faced seating contests at the convention. Many a Republican State boss still sat mum on the sidelines, planned to use his quota of votes to make an effective deal at the convention, or toss them on to the band wagon as it rolled...
...announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done the work but still do not grasp the material." As Parker-Cramer kept mum, a Crimson photographer crashed one of its classrooms, took a picture of seven students cramming, dashed out with a tutor in hot pursuit. The Crimson printed the picture. Parker-Cramer promptly sued eleven of its members for trespass and libel...
Stunned by FCC's foray in the field of consumer protection, RCA was mum, said nothing about its own willingness to stake its reputation that television was ready to go. Less than mum were editorial writers who thundered at what seemed to be arbitrary restriction of a new and promising industry. To answer them lean, balding FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly last week took to the air. Gist of his defense: if RCA's transmission methods should be superseded by technological developments (now being tested by Philco, DuMont and other RCA competitors), its sets would be useless, purchasers...
Justice Frank Murphy, only Catholic on the bench, kept mum. But when Edwin Pickett, arguing for the State of Connecticut, declared that it was unlawful to "stir up strife and discontent," Justice James Clark McReynolds interjected that Jesus stirred up "a good deal of trouble in Jerusalem." Mr. Pickett replied: "As I remember my Bible, something was done about that." The Court took the case under advisement...
Chief Engineer William Sutcliffe mostly shrugged and shook his head. The only definite things he would say were that he had used all twelve of her boilers and that some day she would outspeed the Queen Mary. But about the crossing he was modestly mum...