Word: quietus
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Wisconsin had fired the first shot against Texas when the Wisconsin Real Estate Board put a quietus on some Texans who were hawking Rio Grande valley land through the Wisconsin back country. The Wisconsin Board claimed that the Texas land was no good, that it had been misrepresented by its boosters. When the Board found that its own secretary, John L. Newman, had defied its edict by purchasing a ten-acre citrus farm in the forbidden valley, it promptly discharged...
...share and perhaps more, of frauds. The Boston Better Business Bureau was built up by Mr. Greene and now has over 600 members. Last fall they exposed the methods of Wrestler Gu's Sonnenberg. It has been especially active recently in routing out stock promoters; it put a quietus on many Boston Curb Exchange operators. Last fortnight it published a bulletin which contained some surprising firms and products which it flayed for offering stock with merchandise...
Senator Borah's ursine figure and mighty voice have lately been seen and heard by great and demonstrative masses of the electorate. He it was who put a firm quietus upon the "farm revolt" at the Kansas City convention. He it is who is reckoned as Nominee Hoover's most formidable stump spokesman. A fortnight ago he appeared in Minneapolis on the heels of Nominee Smith. Some 14,000 loudly cheering persons jammed into an auditorium to hear him pound at the Brown Derby's position on the Lakes-to-Sea waterway and the farm problem. He also defended...
April 16)? No, because like all other Coolidge statements on the subject it omitted the final renunciation, the I-will-not-accept. Then it must mean simply a quietus to the Messrs. Hilles and Morris of New York...
...Hilles of New York stepped out of President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen a State ticket frogged up by Mayor Thompson and his discredited comrade-in-expediency, Governor Lennington Small...