Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied by U. M. W., NLRB, and the Department of Justice...
Fortnight ago, faced with a report from Generalissimo Franco that additional support was needed to quash the Leftists, pugnacious Premier Mussolini blurted out in a speech at Genoa that he could not guarantee success for the French-Italian conversations because in "the war in Spain, we are on opposite sides of the barricades." Before agreement could be reached Italy demanded, it was reported: 1) that France close her borders to Leftist supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have...
While his country's national tennis tournament went on without him, Germany's No. 1 Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm stood trial for homosexuality. Testimony was taken in Berlin's gloomy old Moabit Court behind doors closed to press and public. Presumably to quash rumors of the trial's being a political persecution, both press' and public were admitted last day when the presiding judge had his final say. In a frank review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst...
During the Ethiopian War Thomas Joseph Pendergast, Democratic dictator of Kansas City, was said to have used influence in Washington to quash the proposed U. S. embargo on oil to Italy. Last week Italian Vice Consul Alessandro Savorgnan of St. Louis draped around Dictator Pendergast's pudgy neck the insignia of the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy...
From the United Press at Rapid City: "Local Ladies' Aid Societies deny they are or have been interested in Gary Cooper's shirt tails . . . ask . . . where the story originated so they may take steps to quash...