Word: quashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge of bribery in an Indiana state highway scandal. Specific complaints against Hutcheson and some of his lesser officers: accepting at least $107,935.07 in employer bribes, leasing valuable union property to Hutcheson kinsmen at token rates, spending union funds in efforts to bribe state officials to quash the bribery indictment, dipping into the multimillion-dollar "special organizing" fund for uncounted amounts, destroying union records of the takings. The suit demanded court protection for the complaining members and their local union (Local 101, Baltimore) against the Carpenter practice of strong-arming down all opposition, begged the court...
After reading the thoroughly documented data attached, I trust you will find means to quash this most inappropriate nomination. Sincerely, Archibald B. Roosevelt...
...Secretary Ralphe Bunche. Three months later, when the list had been published, Archibald B. Roosevelt '17 (son of T.R.) dispatched a long letter (see box) to President Pusey, expressing his horror at reading of Bunche's candidacy for the Board of Overseers, and urging Pusey to "find means to quash this most inappropriate nomination...
Some Judge last week refused to quash one indictment against Mr. Freed--inciting, that is--and that same Judge backed away from ruling on a second charge that Mr. Freed, who brings today's hits, yesterday's happiness and tomorrow's hopes to millions on his world-famous radio show, violated a Massachusetts anti-anarchy law. A few women and children, about 20 in all, were stabbed and beaten following a performance by some of the greatest stars of '58, but these women and children were of course the sacrifice the few must pay in order to ensure the welfare...
...Marshal Raymond Hixon, who had gathered the arson evidence against the defendants, happened to meet Teamster Secretary-Treasurer Boling. Testified Hixon: "He told me that there was not going to be a trial. I asked him how he knew. He said that there had been $18,500 passed to quash the indictments, and there was not to be a trial." Hixon remembered that at the time "there was quite a bit of talk around that money had been passed to quash the indictment."( Asked Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy: "Passed to whom?" Testified Hixon: "To Judge Schoolfield...