Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of peaceful demonstration Quite apart from the legal rights of the individual concerned, which should be most scrupulously safeguarded. I believe that a show of temper and or unnecessary roughness by the police tended to induce that very spirit of lawlessness which it was designed to suppress...
...pointed out that the cause of pressure groups is a desire to stabilize their condition in a changing world. The answer to these powerful, organized minorities, he said, is not to try to destroy them or suppress them but to establish a compensated economy which will in part remove the causes of their organization and particularly will remove the large groups of idle proletarians whose votes can be controlled either by bribery or enchainment...
...today are not the great bankers, financiers or real estate racketeers, but the obscure and unknown persons who pass upon letters to the editor and decide what shall and what shall not be printed. From their decision there is no appeal. They can, as many of them do, suppress all letters attacking the grievous wrongs and social injustices of our present economic system. Once in a while, to make a pretense of fairness, a letter criticizing the existing social order may be printed. The rest is silence...
...height of the outbreak Spanish Fascist José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the late Dictator, offered the Government 1,500 trained men to help suppress it. Though politely declined, Spanish wiseacres found that offer the most significant in the entire affray. Rumor would not down that the entire uprising was backed not by Radicals but by Royalists and Fascists in an effort to throw the acknowledged Rightist swing of Spanish voters behind an open dictatorship...
German newspapers were compelled to suppress all but the barest news of the Church crisis and Reichsbischof Müller flatly refused to discuss it with U. S. correspondents. "Tell American churchgoers," said he, "that in our Church the Gospel will naturally remain as a foundation on which the message of Christ will rest." Meanwhile Storm Troops descended on the parishes of many non-Nazi pastors, herded several off to prison camps...