Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empowered Minister of Interior Baron von Gayl to suppress at his discretion any German newspaper...
...troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony. All were War veterans with honorable discharge papers, all were jobless. By appropriating rides...
...participators who witnessed an hitherto peaceful band of cops metamorphosed into almost brutal "arrest-hunters." But aside from this, the point that should be emphasized is the attitude of the immigration authorities toward the much mistreated Edith Berkman. Mrs. Tillinghast and Sub-Commissioner F. S. Abercrombie have tried to suppress knowledge of the fact that those in no way connected with Communist or Socialist organizations are active in Miss Berkman's case and they have played the whole affair up as a "Red Riot" to give it the stigma of radicalism...
Chinese Pandemonium broke loose when, day after the Pax Britannica was initialed, the Chinese Government of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek telegraphed orders to Chinese mayors and garrison commanders to suppress promptly and at once any anti-Japanese societies or other boycott groups in their districts...
Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...