Word: quelled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
Seen blazing on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Jarvis Street last night was the flery cross of the Ku Klux Klan. Polico and fire departments were notified, and one fire engine soon arrived to quell the flames. The Klaumen, however, had vanished...
...That in the heat of battle he had lost his head; that he had determined to quell once and for all the spirit of revolt that is apt to affect second-term Congresses; that he was ignorant or heedless of the fact that by his course he was permanently splitting an already divided party and risking everything to gain little, even if he won on the immediate Court issue...
...Iowa plan. Mr. Schuh is president of the National Association of Petroleum Retailers, which was formed under NRA, includes more than 50,000 of the 170,000 filling station owners in the U. S. Mr. Schuh's principal job since the Iowa Plan was adopted has been to quell price wars among the new independents. Said...
...eyed aesthetes? We still have plenty of good times, but even in our gayer moments, we're not as bad as you often hear. One of our most "horrible" pastimes is throwing water from our windows on "Colonel" Apted and his force of "Yard Cops" as they try to quell a Spring riot. But, I ask you, is such a pastime better or worse than that recorded by President Chauney in 1656, when "Three students were expelled out of the Colledge for hanging Goodman Sells dogge upon the signe post in the night...