Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This tempest has arisen not so much from the unfairness of the authorities as their continued failure to appreciate the temper of the press. Circumstances indicate that several faithful employees of the University were being harshly dealt with. Instead of exerting any effort to dispel these impressions, those in charge of press relations defended these actions with a Jovian silence. The public drew conclusions, not particularly clever, but convincingly damning and unpleasant. The result was that the god-like silence have the University very much the appearance of a thoroughly unholy Scrooge...