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...event, the implications of the policy should be recognized. If the college is to acquire a public spirited attitude, the administration should not stop with halfway measures. If not, they should recognize and suppress the regulations already in force, which lead in this direction...
...Nobody but a judge in court may legally suppress the circulation of books or magazines," he added...
...five to 15 fishing boats. Peasants must join Peasant Associations, which are collectively responsible for the behavior of individual members. In state factories and mines, Comrade Tribunals, composed of Communist workers, conduct "cases that are of educational significance and are related to labor discipline and work regulations," i.e., workers suppress workers. At a recent mass trial at Tenckuang football field in Nanchung, 4,000 people cheered while four workers were sentenced to prison for "larceny and corruption." The trial was cited as "a mobilization meeting for increased production, practicing economy, and opposing corruption and waste...
Skin drums were long banned by the British in order to suppress African tribal traditions, but Trinidad musicians discovered they could make a kind of music with tubes of bamboo. "Bamboo-tamboo" bands competed with each other, thunking large-bore tubes on the ground and whacking smaller sticks together in the air to create a rich polyrhythmic effect; onlookers, unable to resist the compelling beat, would pound anything that would make noise. But by the early '30s bamboo was on its way out-the police had found that the sticks were too likely to be used as weapons. Then...
Myth. The biography is Beaverbrook, A Study in Power and Frustration. The author: Tom Driberg, ex-M.P., left-wing Laborite and onetime Beaverbrook columnist. Explained the Express: "The book is hostile and often inaccurate, but the policy of this newspaper is to suppress nothing...