Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea how to feed and water them. This wholesale trade was last week giving some concern to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, because it has been found that chameleons help Florida celery growers by eating destructive caterpillars and moths, and the Department now believes that they help suppress insect pests on other truck crops in Southeastern and Gulf States. No law banning their sale was yet in sight, but in answer to hundreds of inquiries from chameleon purchasers the Department sent out bulletins on "The American Chameleon and Its Care...
Governor Earle stepped in promptly when the steel strike spread to Bethlehem Steel's Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa. First he sent in State police who with a firm hand arrested strikers as well as non-strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June...
...March 5-Absolutely suppress any news of the arrival in Naples of wounded volunteers from Spain on one of our hospital ships...
...with ill-concealed satisfaction that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor Earle started an investigation, cried: "The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the Commonwealth. The blame lies directly on the sheriff of the county. . . . The State police will not be used to suppress union labor...
That Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin have never seen cause to suppress Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin or even excessively bourgeois Madame Butterfly goes far to explain how Soviet Russia is now managing to like supercapitalistic Mr. & Mrs. Davies and support quietly a growing bureaucracy of Babbitt Bolsheviks...