Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King and Mrs. Simpson, or the facts of their friendship and her divorce. This had been done only by a mimeographed London weekly tipsheet, The Week, of negligible circulation. Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "The reticence of the British press cannot be put down to an effort of the King to suppress knowledge of his regard for Mrs. Simpson. The true explanation is that the British press is forbidden by a recently enacted law to make a public spectacle out of any divorce case. It may print only the bare facts of the legal proceedings...
...transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement of cancellation but their reception of the "Mystery Chat" continued. In their frenzy Columbia's executives had decided that it might be less expedient to suppress the broadcast than to run it. Finally Columbia's Manhattan office made up its independent mind, cut off the program for good from 22 stations in the East and South. The gathering in the Tropical Room and listeners to the other 44 Columbia stations heard the whole half-hour...
...Moscow radio communication had just been opened and the Central Executive Committee of the Spanish Communist Party flashed urgent appeals to the Dictator. Stalin's whereabouts have been secret since he was reported to have left Moscow "on vacation" with his entourage in an armored train, reputedly to suppress insurgence in his native Georgia. Last week, wherever Stalin was, the Spanish Communists soon got a radio reply signed by Stalin as Secretary General of the Russian Communist Party telling them that "The toilers of the Soviet Union are only carrying out a duty in rendering all the assistance...
...knows that the right man will have to win, if only to suppress the tragedienne in Miss Cowl that occasionally begins to crop out. But in general her acting is perfectly attuned to the mood of the play, and it is the way that she and her excellent support pronounce the Kaufman lines that is largely responsible for their success. The actors put the audience in a laughing disposition, which happily manages to tide one over the many barren stretches between the brilliant cracks...
Many a U. S. newsorgan was snipped or censored in Cuba while "Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress. Cubans lounging in sidewalk cafes had scarcely noticed that some of their U. S. visitors were reading an Esquire article entitled "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" when the Government swooped clown, confiscated all current newsstand copies of this masculine equivalent of Vogue and threw into jail luckless Marcial Perez, a partner in the firm which sells Esquire in Cuba...