Word: squelches
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...Tried, in a letter to Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, to squelch a Congressional revolt against his $25,000 salary ceiling...
Proposals for a cost Harvard and Radcliffe have received their first slaps, one a severe squelch from Radcliffe's president and the other a cool reception from a Freshman...
Last week WPB Chief Donald Nelson appointed tall, modest Arthur B. Newhall, in charge of rubber imports for WPB, as coordinator of the hodgepodge, over lapping rubber agencies in Washington. Though a coordinator was badly needed and coordination was Mr. Nelson's chief aim, the effect was a squelch for Mr. Jones who, as Federal Loan Administrator, had stretched out over the synthetic rubber program. In a showdown, Nelson's Newhall will have authority to tell Texas' Jones where...
...good Crimson Junior Varsity football aggregation will have to stay in high gear if it expects to squelch a determined Eli outfit when the two teams meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon on the enclosed practice field on Soldiers Field...
...those who advocate a similar morale-building program for our universities, forget that morale is at its best when a nation supports a military program of its own free will; there is no better was to squelch the opposition's cries of "misleading propaganda." If the government's aims in this war have been properly stated, there is no need to put education in khaki. The morale of college students, Faculty members, and the country at large will be a lot higher when there is no destruction of academic freedom to undermine the government's program...