Word: suppressers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unended Danger. The problem for Ben-Gurion was not just to suppress terrorism, but to convince Israelis that the terrorists' promises of victory through violence were deceptive. Last week he demanded and got a vote of confidence (24-7) from the Council of State. Said he: "The incident may be closed, but the danger hasn't ended ... It would be a mistake to depend upon the army alone [to suppress terror]. The entire people of Israel are called upon to overcome the danger." Terrorists had flourished during the British mandate. Now, said Ben-Gurion, Israel must unite...
...Federal Trade Commission in its eleven-year-old antitrust suit against the Cement Institute and its 74 member companies. Said the Court: "[The system is] a handy instrument to bring about elimination of any kind of price competition." In fact, said the Court, cementmakers had used the system to suppress competition by 1) boycotts, 2) price cuts (against plants refusing to play ball), 3) identical bids to cement users, and 4) opposition to the building of new plants...
...grown big enough. I wrote to the Daily Worker, and called Mr. Winchell to tell them that no such poll on Mr. Wallace had ever been taken by me, that if and when any such poll were taken, neither Henry Luce nor anyone else either would or could suppress it. As a matter of fact, in over ten years of directing the FORTUNE Survey, neither Mr. Luce nor anyone else has ever tried to suppress any of our polls, despite the fact that Mr. Luce has not always liked their results...
...longer in the habit of drinking it. I must have been bien soûl [pretty plastered], and somebody must have said something I didn't like. So I hit him. Then in return they beat me up; I guess they had to suppress me, after all. There is no political meaning...
Died. General Alfredo Baldomir, 63, ex-President of Uruguay (1938-42); in Montevideo. A friend of the Allies early in World War II, dapper Baldomir used police-state methods to suppress pro-Nazis in his government, but gave Uruguay a more democratic constitution before he bowed...