Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summing up for His Majesty's Government, Trade Board President Runciman cried: "We have found that in some parts of the Empire goods have been imported direct from Japan bearing British names and trademarks. That is a form of dishonesty which any government should do its best to suppress...
...British taxpayer winced when it appeared last week that he must guarantee the debts of thoroughly insolvent Newfoundland. As Newfoundland bonds bounded up on the news, Britain's famed Manchester Guardian, its excited editors ignoring Newfoundland's non-dominion status, asked: "Is this claim to suppress the Dominion constitution in order to avoid default on external debt payments to be confined to Newfoundland? If so, on what peculiar theory of Empire relationships is the claim based? Are the financial arguments strong enough to justify such interference? In a word, is no lesser measure possible which would equally well...
...house of the Speaker, who was then Göring himself? Could he make plausible the Nazi charge that Communists set a fire which provided Chancellor Hitler with the opportunity to rush straight to President von Hindenburg, obtain dictatorial powers on the plea of national emergency and proceed to suppress first the Communist Party and later all others except his own? In Berlin last week General Göring, famed for his dashing appearances at Nazi rallies in swank uniforms created by himself, chose to appear before the Supreme Court in the unadorned brown of a simple Storm Trooper, escorted...
...with which the 7 o'clock bell ordinance has been repealed. There is no more ringing of bells early in the morning now than there is "bolsterous music or playing upon drums," (as the parietal regulations put it), at night. Yet last year it took a tinpan obligate to suppress the Sunday morning cartoonists of Lowell House Tower. Even now, we live in continual dread of the Russian Bells, which might start at any minute, announcing the decreasing sobriety of Lowell House tutors. Perhaps President Conant might decree another act of mercy and cut these bells...
Making clear that Prussia will ruthlessly suppress Jews, Communists or even Nazi Storm Troopers who show symptoms of disobedience. Premier Göring declared: "I have determined to intervene with an iron fist! ... It has been shown that the enemies of the State were only pretending to be dead. . . . Whoever in the future lays violent hands on an official of the State, a policeman or a Storm Trooper, must know that he will pay for it in the briefest possible time. ... It is entirely beside the point whether the act is followed by death or merely leads to injury...