Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Fuad of Egypt was widely petitioned to quash the proceedings, and is now being pressed to overrule the verdict...
...Dayton, Judge J. L. Godsey, counsel for the defense, entered a motion in the Circuit Court to quash the indictment on the grounds 1) that the act under which it was brought violates the Constitution of Tennessee in its guarantee of religious freedom and 2) that the indictment itself is "vague" and violates the U. S. Constitution in its guarantee of information to one accused, as to the nature of his crime and its guarantee of free speech...
...Wheeler was also indicted by a Grand Jury in the District of Columbia.* The present Attorney General had the alternative of proceeding with the trial or asking the Court to quash the indictment and pray the public to forget it. He could not refund the price of admission...
...recent action of the Chamber of Deputies in voting to quash the credits for the French Embassy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 9) has caused heated controversy between those Catholics who are not Socialists and those who are. The Communists of Marseilles capitalized the dispute for their own violent ends. Armed with stilettos and revolvers, they caused a riot at General Castelnau's meeting, attacked many priests...
...belief in spiritualism. Scientific methods can go on disproving forever, and yet they cannot be conclusive for people whose desire is their belief. Even a dramatic expose like the recent one in London where "spirits" photographs were recognized as living pugilists and show girls does not seem to quash the idea. It is one which humanity cherishes, and therefore one which will recur again and again...