Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boast that he never asked an editor to print anything or to suppress anything (except once, when he asked that news of a huge donation to an endowment fund be withheld until other donations rolled in). News bulletins go out not under his name, but those of his clients. Sometimes he summons reporters to his office, gives them copies of a bulletin, elaborately invites further questions, rarely tells more than is in the written "handout." Some newshawks curse him for allegedly spoiling a Hearst scoop on Abby Rockefeller's engagement. When the Hearst man asked him to confirm...
...Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...
...truce last week were two. From the south the Canton Government called home the 19th Route Army from its trek north to take over the war against Japan. At the same time Cantonese General Chen Chi-tang accepted a long-standing order from Chiang Kai-shek to suppress bandits in five southeastern provinces. Canton also withdrew its support of ''Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, strutting in Chahar Province. And last week 47 Chinese Generals signed a circular telegram supporting the truce and repudiating General Feng...
...Chinese "volunteer corps" in the war area would be disbanded. China promised to suppress anti-Japanese boycotting and other activities...
...part Ambassador Welles had had in this was hidden last week by his customary public silence. But behind the scenes he was active. He called on Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara. Ten minutes after he arrived, word went out to the government censors, who edit all Cuban newspapers, to suppress all mention of the call. One enthusiastic censor forbade all future mention of Mr. Welles. Next day Mr. Welles had luncheon with Machado and the man Machado had just made his Secretary of War & Marine: General Alberto Herrera. As Secretary of State Ferrara sailed for London at the head...