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...potent Judiciary Committee, made the jhigh-pitched suggestion that "enemies of this nation, in the factory or elsewhere," be sent to the electric chair. Secretary of War Henry Stimson, with hoarse urgency, spoke of organizing home guards (now that the National Guard was in the Army) to suppress "any labor disorders...
...driver to go to the Hotel Majestic. Five times on the way the driver had to detour around tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-tank units. The driver kept muttering: "Against the people! Against the people!" He thought the tanks and the guns and the soldiers were there to suppress demonstrations against the Axis. Correspondent Brock thought...
...first scene showed the patient in a chair, smoking, vivaciously telling Dr.-Dickens a funny story. Suddenly he chuckled, clapped his hand to his mouth to suppress a laugh, slumped forward in his chair, his face contorted, arms dangling. Dr. Dickens pinched his arm-no result. In a few minutes, the patient came to, rubbed his eyes, went on with his story...
Only in exceptional cases will the College grant permission to students to patronize commercial tutoring schools, according to Dean A. Chester Hanford. In his annual report, released in full yesterday, Dean Hanford reviewed the campaign against the tutoring schools and reiterated the administration's determination to suppress them...
...unfortunate tools. The Government has got to face the issue as a matter of war strategy. . . . Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want to take [i.e., suppress the British Communist Party]. . . . I am not going to be a party to punishing 99 per cent to stop one per cent, but if there are some subversive elements trying to interfere with the war effort, I will deal with that one per cent...