Word: squelched
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Nevertheless Publisher Hearst was not pleased. Trouble-shooting executives were sent to Washington to squelch Publisher Marshall, to order him to keep, out of the editorial rooms and attend solely to business. He became a Hearst problem. Last week he became a deeply aggrieved Hearst has-been...
...squelch pesky Communists (see col. 3), Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek authorized last week a special subsidy of 600,000 Shanghai dollars ($200,000) per month to Chinese generals supplying troops to fight the Reds...
...last fortnight the venerable Portland Oregonian felt obliged to print the foregoing "plain statement of facts'' in a two-column box on its front page. It may have helped squelch a false rumor, but it could not make the Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...
...study with Norman Bel Geddes. He learned all Geddes could teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office in a day, he returned a third time. To squelch him, Harris gave him the script of The Criminal Code, told him to come back next morning with complete sketches and blue prints for the stage design. Prodigy Johnson bent to this mighty task, appeared next morning with the work. He had subordinated detail to mass and form...
After this challenge Chancellor Hitler, were he a real Dictator, would have been obliged to squelch Vice-Chancellor von Papen. Instead he presided over secret Cabinet negotiations in which von Papen, cool and supercilious, let his speech be attacked and defended by the Chancellor's hottest Left and Right fanatics, notably club-footed Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels and roaring, bull-necked General Hermann Wilhelm Göing, Premier of Prussia...