Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been escorted out of the country and handsomely paid off by the Chief of Police of Bucharest. But last week red-haired Magda Lupescu was found to be still in Rumania and not all the King's censors and all the King's soldiers could suppress for more than a few days the fact that Pompadour Lupescu had come up for action before the Executive Committee of the National Peasant Party...
Reports from Chinese seacoast cities were that Japanese freighters are now rolling in loaded to the scuppers and that most Japanese lines in the China trade have chartered extra freighters. Propped up in front of Chinese editors were orders from the Government threatening to suppress any newspaper which "supports the stand of the ignorant merchants." In a circular telegram the Generalissimo wrathfully declared: "THE GOVERNMENT WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE THE UNREASONABLE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC...
...protest that it is not freedom of the press to suppress or garble important news which happens not to be in accord with some editorial policy or opinion. , . . That is domination of the press and when it is practiced by a great chain of newspapers under one-man control it becomes a public menace.? ... I wish the newspapers would submit a code containing provisions which would leave elimination of such practices to their own self-governing bodies. They are the only industry that has declined...
...cease to exist because when the board was created the President. Mr. Darrow and General Johnson agreed that it should finish its work by May 31. This announcement was a surprise to some members of the Board. No surprise was it to most politicians. Since President Roosevelt could not suppress the Darrow report without inviting charges that he was treating it as President Hoover had treated the Wickersham report on Prohibition, he had but two choices: 1) to dissolve the Darrow Board or 2) to continue providing Mr. Darrow with a free forum from which to attack the Administration...
After gravely noting developments, it is difficult to suppress a certain derision at the almost indecent change in the French attitude toward Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French loans, and others, made to czarist Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French peasants, invested in those loans on governmental advice. Like many other governments the French firmly and righteously refused for a many years to deal with Soviet Russia. But the logic of events (and the French, it appears, pride themselves on their logic) forced the two governments to resume diplomatic relations. The threatened military recrudescence of Germany...