Word: squelched
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Great was the confusion aboard the George Washington before sailing. Mrs. Stimson was badly jostled by news cameramen seeking her husband. A delegation of New Jersey politicians came aboard. It was all Ambassador Morrow could do to squelch their demonstration in behalf of his candidacy for the Senate. Statesman Stimson, in a final interview, was drowned out by the rattle of a deck winch...
...nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, went last week to squelch a conference of policy game promoters, scuffled with a large Negro, wrested a revolver from his hand...
...years in his role of bait, have twice tried and failed to get him elected to Parliament from a worker constituency, are trying again. In 1927 he championed with jovial humbuggery the Trade Dispute's Act-probably the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed in England to squelch strikes...
Through a month of plenary sessions this seating was not changed. When Bolivia quarreled with Paraguay, mother, father and the whole family proceeded to squelch them both (see below). But even that rumpus did not spoil the party, did not prevent the delegates from negotiation and drafting two vital Peace Pacts...
This organization is, of course, the once world-extensive Communist bureau for promoting subversive movements in Capitalistic lands. At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously "conservative," has seen fit to squelch such activities...