Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators have greeted every lynching bill that came up for debate with a reaction as sharp and unfailing as would be produced by a polecat. Snorted Georgia's Richard Russell last week of the latest...
...cause of this silence on Ireland seems to be carelessness, rather than any premeditated desire to suppress the facts. Indeed, President Eliot, started quite a renaissance in Irish culture, and brought to Harvard a number of prominent students, among them Professor Fred N. Robinson 91, whose tireless research in old Celtic was awarded last year with a degree from the University of Dublin. This work has been steadily carried on, although in comparative secrecy. The archeological expedition that has been at work in Ireland for the last four years under the direction of Hugh Hencken '31, of the Peabody Muscum...
...student and the forgotten merchant are again on the short end of the stick in September. The latter does no business at all, while the student buys his books second-hand from the Coop for a fraction less than their original price, provided the Coop does not decide to suppress their used copies in favor of new ones. Thus, the unfortunate undergraduate finds his pennies dwindling away while he manages to salvage but a few from his dividend...
Chief Justice Hughes goes on to say "It does not follow from the fact that the Executive has this range of discretion, deemed to be a necessary incident of his power to suppress disorder, that every sort of action the Governor may take, no matter how unjustified by the exigency or subversive of private right and the jurisdiction of the courts otherwise available, is conclusively supported by mere executive flat...
...attempts to settled a controversy by martial law, he is acting as the prosecutor, judge, and jury all by himself, and employing methods for the maintenance of order which may be even more dangerous to private citizens than the activities of the persons whom the governor is attempting to suppress...