Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson was quick to quash this League talk. "American participation in the Five Power Disarmament Conference," he wrote, "will be separate, distinct, and apart from the League of Nations...
...once-and still is-in love with the banker's son. People who go to the movies every night will have trouble making out who is the hero and who is the villain and this difficulty will not please them. Most expected shot: H. B. Warner deciding to quash the indictment...
...effect of these developments was virtually to quash the possibility that a Spanish or Brazilian veto might again cause trouble when the League Assembly meets to induct Germany next September...
...call upon the granite-faced and granite-souled President of this justice-loving nation to mitigate or quash this harsh sentence." Congress began to consider the more important question of what should be done about aviation in the Army and Navy. It had two options: to create a single united air service for Army and Navy under a Department of National Defense, as proposed by Colonel Mitchell and as proposed by a special committee of the House of which Colonel Mitchell's lawyer, Congressman Reid, is a member; or to follow the recommendation of the President's Aircraft Board, headed...
Last week the trial of a German officer, one Colonel Mersin, was about to be concluded. He had been convicted as a murderer, and the presiding officer of the court martial was rising to pronounce sentence of death. Suddenly instructions were received from the Ministry of Justice to quash the proceedings. It was announced that in view of the Locarno treaties, Belgium would cease to prosecute War-guilty Germans...