Word: quashing
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...Adopted a resolution to quash impeachment charges against U. S. District Judge Harry Bennett Anderson of Tennessee...
...hold the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment to be invalid and the motion to quash the [Sprague] indictment is accordingly granted...
...occasion of the first High Table it might conceivably have applied its high sense of ironic humor to the incident and suggested, among other things, that if the inhabitants of Lowell House (who may be somewhat concerned in the matter) really disapprove of the Tradition, they can quash the matter rather easily by adjourning in a body to the Georgian on any given Monday evening. But the CRIMSON seems persistently to choose to be laughed at rather than with, and repeatedly to make itself headline material for the journals of one of the most illustrious of Harvard's not-quite...
...state of Parahyba (TIME, Aug. 11, 18), rang with rumors last week of an impending revolution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Details were not forthcoming. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington, the Brazilian foreign minister, President Washington Luis united in an almost hysterical desire to quash reports. Said the President's secretary, Senhor Mendes Goncalves: "His Excellency authorizes me to state that the situation of Brazil is at present as it has been in recent times, of the most perfect economical, political and financial order...
...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...