Word: squelched
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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...
...like autumn leaves protesting that the school campaign was a breach of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat (TIME, July 17, 1933). Hitler, however, had a trump card. He had long been lining up "evidence" to prove that German Catholic monasteries were hotbeds of immorality. In a climactic, triumphant effort to squelch Catholicism on Aryan soil he threw all the immorality trials into the courts at the same time. He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, that the Reich's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children would be transformed without a hitch...
...week, Celestials read almost unanimous forecasts by China's most esteemed soothsayers that in 1937 will break "The Big War" between their country and Japan. What clinched this soothsaying in many Chinese minds last week was the appointment in Tokyo of a sword-handy Cabinet which proceeded to squelch the Japanese Diet. New Japanese Premier General Hayashi is known and hated throughout China as "The Border Crosser." Reason: in 1931 his troops were the first Japanese unit to cross the border from Korea, invading Chinese Manchuria, the larger part of which Japan has now turned into her puppet Empire...
...Berkeley; D. A. Doran. producer) is one of those semi-serious melodramas in which the actions of the characters are motivated entirely by necessities of plot. Its principal actors are three juveniles. That circumstance permits the authors to finesse one natural denouement after another by having the old folks squelch the children every time they are in a position to reveal important evidence as to who killed Aunt Helen and Uncle John...