Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even those who cannot suppress a smile at these methods admit that the end justifies the means. It is admirable for Harvard to contribute money to tide ever some of the fourteen hundred families in Cambridge who are without means of support. But it should not stop with the assumption that money is the only contribution it can make. It should have enough respect for its own mental abilities to take part in a program for permanent economic betterment. What money it does give should be spent as the Cambridge Unemployment Relief so wisely suggested as last night's dinner...
...deny in anything he has said that he was speaking for Labor. We have known him until recently as a House of Commons man. He is now an Orders in Council man. This is more than an economy bill. It is a bill to suppress the Opposition, silence the minority and make a mere mockery of Parliamentary Government...
...means in the world" for getting the Scottsboro boys hanged or mobbed. The International Labor Defense, a Red organization which has been exploiting the Scottsboro case for political purposes, said the Camp Hill meeting was instigated for economic reasons and that white landowners had ordered it broken up to suppress the idea of a sharecroppers' union...
...days of the arrest, three juries returned a verdict of guilty against eight of the Negroes. They were sentenced to death in the electric chair on July 10. A mistrial was ordered for the youngest. Throughout the trials, 1,000 National Guardsmen were held in readiness to suppress race disorders...
...editors had hoped it would, the U.S. Supreme Court this week declared unconstitutional Minnesota's "gag law" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) which empowered any district judge to suppress by permanent injunction any publication that he deemed "malicious, scandalous or defamatory." The case at hand had been in the courts since 1927, when the Minneapolis judge first enforced the law against the Saturday Press which had been attacking public officials for alleged vice protection. Publishers J. M. Near and Howard A. Guilford, lacking funds, were aided first by the American Civil Liberties Union, then by the Chicago Tribune and American...