Word: squelched
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...Argentine Government last week squelched an attempted coup but it could not squelch a suspicion...
...Hugo Fernández Artucio, its No. 1 anti-Nazi sleuth, out to continue his work abroad. A onetime professor of philosophy at the University of Montevideo, Dr. Fernandez started his investigations in Uruguay as a labor of love, published a book of his findings, aroused the Government to squelch Nazi organizations. Recently he conferred with Government officials in nine Latin-American countries. Last week in Washington he testified at the trial of the German Transocean news service, which was found guilty of operating an unregistered propaganda outlet (see p. 17). Next he goes to London at the invitation...
Certain professors at Harvard and Princeton, unable to go on teaching undergraduates about continental political systems which have been goose-stepped out of Europe, are now using their courses to squelch any "for tomorrow we die" attitude and replace it by a rediscovery of the worth of democratic institutions...
...radio promotion of Love Thy Neighbor. Allen is now a rival of Eddie Cantor, who is handled by the same agency that handles Benny. If Benny should team up with Allen on a show, it would obviously do Cantor no good. Consequently the agency would dearly love to squelch the feud it once promoted...
...they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink-cheeked Faculty Adviser James Hawkes became perturbed and tried to squelch his Nazi talk, Dale conceived a cordial dislike for Instructor Hawkes, became still more defiant. To the dismay of his roommate, Dale installed a bust of Hitler on his desk...