Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he (to a Senate subcommittee): "It is a terrific task to guarantee that the Canal will remain open while we still permit commercial traffic through it: Yet it is unthinkable that we would suppress commercial traffic. So we always have a hazard there. . . ."What General Marshall had in mind was the danger that some supposedly innocent tanker, tramp steamer or fishing boat on its way through the locks might suddenly turn out to be a floating time bomb. How acute, ever-present and unpredictable that peril is, the Army learned last week when its own transport...
Last week for the first time in six months CBS's short-wave listening post picked up a newscast aired by the celebrated German Freiheitsender-the secret "Freedom Station" the Nazis have repeatedly tried to suppress. Giving no location, announcing simply that his program was "Germany Speaking," the Freiheitsender commentator, who may have been speaking from Switzerland, mocked Göring on the failure of his second four-year plan, which ended last week, contended Hitler had overrun Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France because ersatz food and gasoline had failed him, declared the only...
Acting quickly to suppress the latest venture in commercial tutoring, Dean George H. Chase announced yesterday that the College would take disciplinary action against students who use prepared maps in their work for History...
...Consumed with righteous indignation," Senator Tobey charged back to the U. S. Senate, where he demanded: "Is there a Hague-Washington axis? Who are Hague's friends in Washington who step in and attempt to suppress Federal agencies of investigation...
...Germans had apparently permitted the ships to sail with the understanding that they were being dispatched to suppress a revolution in Africa in favor of General de Gaulle. It seems that France then informed the British that she was in reality sending them to join forces with Britain again. Just as slyly the British pretended to believe the trick, but made sure the squadron would never reach the rebellious colonies in French Equatorial Africa. Off the coast of West Africa British warships intercepted the French flotilla, drove it back to Dakar, in Senegal, which was still subservient to Vichy...