Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...variations would be inconvenient in their business, who oppose minimum-wage fixing by the Government. Thus has U. S. business come to adopt views which would have shocked its fathers, which are still shocking other parts of the world: police in Barcelona were still busy last week trying to suppress a "subversive movement,'' fostered by anarchists and syndicalists, to establish a six-hour day in that city...
When Kernel Pasha drove the illicit manufacturers out of Turkey some of them began secret operations in Bulgaria. At first the Bulgarian police, inexperienced in such things, were none too quick in detecting and suppressing the traffic. Recently, however, the Bulgarian authorities have proved themselves alert and effective in suppressing the traffic, as is indicated by the bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of State, issued Feb. 23, 1933 which says in part: "The prompt action of the Bulgarian authorities in this matter, evidence as it is of their desire to cooperate in the international effort to suppress...
...high-school principals from School Superintendent William J. Bogan went the word: "Hold the fort and suppress, as far as you can, any insurrection." At nonstriking Morgan Park, student R. O. T. C. members stood guard...
Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...
...Senate he wears frock coats and high wing collars, declaims his speeches, mixes his metaphors and keeps both ears to the Virginia ground simultaneously. Attacks of indigestion sometimes cause him to faint. His secretary tries to suppress publication of such incidents. A Swanson fainting spell that got into print once cost the Senator some $25,000 in additional campaign expenses to convince his constituents he was not an invalid. Admirals expect him to give them a free hand running the Navy...