Word: repressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba. Sugar then sold for ½? a pound, banks foreclosed on planters, cane cutters roamed the island seeking a few weeks' seasonal work at 20? for a dawn-to-dark day. Those were the years of the tyrannous President Machado and his infamous gangs of gunmen hired to repress the people by terror and torture. Rebellion was in the air. Students led strikes, and the ABC revolutionary society hurled bombs at Machado's hated police. President Roosevelt sent Sumner Welles to help ease Machado out without an insurrection. Machado went, and Cuba exploded in the celebrated "Sergeant...
...this and all other freedoms really are. Freedom is a precious right, but it is not an unlimited right and it ends where license commences. It is the duty of the authorities to guard jealously that freedom of thought and speech given us by the Constitution but also to repress with equal vigor the license, which seeks to destroy that Constitution, upon which all freedoms depend, and to replace it with slavery and chaos...
...months of 1950, Cripps reported, Britain and the rest of the sterling area had chalked up a dollar surplus of $40 million more than ECAid; it was the first time since war's end that the sterling area had been out of the red, and few M.P.s could repress their, cheers...