Word: quashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their lawyers jointly conducted a fight last spring to quash the contempt indictments. Judge Aldrich, however, rejected the defense arguments as "premature" and ordered a trial where the questions could be "viewed in their full perspective...
...first action was taken this fall, when Mrs. Gilbert came back to Boston, after extradition proceedings were filed against her, to be arraigned and then released on bail. It is rumored that the trial will begin in March or April, although Mrs. Gilbert's attorney is trying to quash proceedings on the basis of insufficient evidence...
...most popular of all television stars," cried Walter Winchell on his Sunday night broadcast, "[has been] confronted with her membership in the Communist Party." Winchell named no names. But five days later California's Congressman Donald L. Jackson told the tale-solely, as he explained it, to quash "unfounded rumors." Lucille Ball, redheaded star of I Love Lucy and television's current queen of queens, had admitted under oath to having registered as a Communist in a Los Angeles election back...
California's William Fife Knowland, hand-picked for acting majority leader by Taft, was the leading prospect to succeed him. Last week he convinced Senate Republican leaders that a successor to Taft should be elected quickly to quash talk about party disunity...
...constitution, drawn up by Conservative Hero Miguel Antonio Caro in 1886, the commission planned to extend the President's term from four to six years and give him dictatorial emergency powers, tie could declare a state of siege, fire almost anybody from public or private jobs, quash impeachments and decree laws that the supreme court could not nullify. The constitution would establish the Roman Catholic Church as the state religion, permit Protestants to worship in their churches or other private places, but not to proselyte...