Word: repressing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...headlines of the press are subdued. The large dailies repress their screaming type, realizing the meaning of the reports of economic difficulties, political intrigue, and nationalistic outbursts over the world. The tabloids, too, are silent on world affairs but largely through ignorance of the import of these stirrings beneath the diplomatic cloak of the earth. Yet in increasing number and steadily growing discord the thousand dissonant notes seem to be merging, threatening to break out swiftly with the thunderous drum roll...
...French authorities. Kao-daists say that the French control Indo-China because natives have been lax in religious observances, that the new cult will bring salvation. Organized four years ago by one Le-Van-Trung, 55, onetime Government councillor, Kao-daism now numbers more than 500,000 believers. To repress their nationalistic propaganda, authorities have been obliged to whip, shoot, bomb them...