Word: squelch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey insisted that the State had no "star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and visit his red-headed friend, Showgirl Hope Dare. District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery...
...Chicago delegation, biggest at the convention, came determined to squelch the left-wing New York local. But no squelching was done. Opening the meeting, President Jerome Davis earnestly pleaded: "One of the greatest tasks confronting our federation is how to build unity with all the forces that are opposing dictatorship and fascism. We must do our utmost to make unity the keynote of our present convention." The rest of the 500 delegates proceeded to support Chicago's resolutions, condemn the Kelly-Nash machine's "interference" with Chicago's schools, elect two Chicagoans to the executive council. They...
...Henry A. Wallace is "I was astonished." Last week, Secretary Wallace "was astonished at the number of speculative accounts controlled by so-called commodity counselors or 'tipsters.' " His astonishment was conveyed in a letter to a unique Washington meeting that marked the opening of a campaign to squelch such tipsters. Present were officers from most of the important...
Vested with more authority than he has ever held before, given a mighty club over factionalists who a week previously had hoped to ease him out, confident Mr. Martin promptly began to squelch insubordinate subordinates, to assure automakers that neither they nor rambunctious unionists should expect to get away with anything. Meantime he had become deeper in Mr. Lewis' debt than any other big man in the labor movement...
...Austrian Nazis again to curb their recently much increased activities (TIME, Feb. 7). On this point Dr. Schuschnigg reputedly showed that he has documentary proofs of German financing and instigation of plots against his Government by Austrian Nazis recently arrested. In return for a reputed pledge by Hitler to squelch Austrian Nazi violence, Schuschnigg reputedly pledged not to flaunt his evidence of German guilt before the world and to amnesty the Austrian Nazis now in jail, may even take an Austrian Nazi into his Cabinet. None of this did the Austrian people know officially for sure, but they had their...