Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their propaganda would doubtless be as easily influenced by others. To seek to protect these few by forbidding all expressions of "radicalism" is to use the disastrous methods of the prohibitionists. There are few better ways of increasing the number of "Reds" in our colleges than by seeking to suppress them forcibly. If curbed they must be, there is no better weapon than ridicule--as the Michael Mullins Marching and Chowder Club of Harvard has on several occasions successfully demonstrated. But it is absurd to speak of a "Red menace" in the colleges. New York Herald Tribune. Sunday...
...Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes that man can promote or suppress the unfolding of his heredity by acts of volition. This may lead to actual physical or chemical changes in the germ-plasm, in the operation of the genes, carriers of heredity. "Such changes," said Dr. Hrdlicka, "if benign, may start differentiation, and under special circumstances, conceivably, evolution...
...Minobe, who had only said what they all privately believed, but they did not dare officially deny the official legend that the Emperor is "a super-individual divine human being." Though they declined to charge Dr. Minobe with lese-majeste, the Cabinet did order the Home Minister to suppress Dr. Minobe's two textbooks, Essentials of Constitutional Law and A Course in Constitutional...
Laski, prominent author and a member of Britain's Labor Party, pointed out that in a capitalistic democracy "the economic power is concentrated, while the political control is widely extended. In times of economic contraction, the relationship between these two ruling groups cannot be maintained and one must suppress the other...
Commenting upon the meeting Victor H. Kramer '35, president of the Liberal Club, announced that it "has been arranged to arouse interest in the Hearst-supported bills before the Massachusetts and national legislatures to suppress radical party movements...