Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conscript Labor. So politically powerful is the A. F. of L. that it compelled Congress to exclude specifically from the W. P. C.'s considerations the question of conscripting labor. Nevertheless this question continued to bob up at the hearings despite the efforts of Chairman Hurley to suppress it by citing the constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude. What some witnesses could not see was the difference between "military slavery" in the trenches and "industrial slavery" at home. Nevertheless the weight of authoritative testimony was against drafting labor. General MacArthur, speaking for the War Department, opined: "The enforced employment...
...sledges drawn by bullocks. Honeymoon couples continued to play tennis. Last week the British cruisers London and Curlew slipped into Funchal harbor. Royal marines went ashore to throw a cordon round the three largest tourist hotels. British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution as best it could...
Strategy of the Madeira revolt as planned by exiles and opponents of the five-year Portuguese dictatorship of General Antonio Oscar de Fragosa Carmona, was that Madeira should rebel first. When troops and ships were withdrawn from Lisbon to suppress this island uprising, Lisbon too would rise up in revolt. But the Lisbon revolt fizzled last week. A sabre charge and the rattle of machine guns quieted the revolutionists...
...charge of unfair competition for advertising he reminded the Press that $31,000,000 was spent to advertise radio products in newspapers in 1930. "Suppose," said he, "that radio advertising should drop off, largely through the efforts of the Press to suppress radio programs and other radio news. What then? . . . No sponsors, no money for broadcasting ... no radio industry and no income to the Press...
...ghost with the bearing of Metternich walks in Germany again. An emergency decree empowers local authorities to stop gatherings which they regard likely to disturb public order, to suppress papers which attack religious organizations, slander public figures, or incite to violence, and to dissolve any societies which fail to keep the peace...