Word: oppressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
...decree in 36 firm articles, implanted teeth of acute sharpness in the new body of Mexican anticlerical laws. (TIME, Feb. 22) His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, simultaneously deplored, in an address to 100 U. S. Catholics: "... these laws which are a pretense for the conduct of those who oppress Catholics in Mexico...
...actually spoken ran thus: "Democratic representative government, such as we have in the U. S., is the most inefficient type of government in the world"; (re executive) "our forefathers, dreading Star Chamber methods, created an executive with too little power and too short a term of office to oppress the people"?100% grammar school stuff. All reporters are not of TIME'S accuracy; discrimination befits editors in culling such items. My admiration for your magazine survives unruffled...
...organized banking interests which own the railroads, control credit and dominate the industrial life of the nation, will further oppress labor, rob the consumer, and, by extortionate railroad rates and dictation of the terms of credit, reduce agriculture to the level of the European peasantry, if longer permitted to control this Government...
...must stop the money from going to Peking to buy arms to kill us, just as your forefathers stopped taxation going to the English coffers by throwing English tea into Boston Harbor. Has the country of Washington and Lincoln foresworn its faith in freedom and turned from liberator to oppress Ask the officers and men of the American warships to ponder this before they shoot...