Word: suppressing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cease to exist because when the board was created the President. Mr. Darrow and General Johnson agreed that it should finish its work by May 31. This announcement was a surprise to some members of the Board. No surprise was it to most politicians. Since President Roosevelt could not suppress the Darrow report without inviting charges that he was treating it as President Hoover had treated the Wickersham report on Prohibition, he had but two choices: 1) to dissolve the Darrow Board or 2) to continue providing Mr. Darrow with a free forum from which to attack the Administration...
After gravely noting developments, it is difficult to suppress a certain derision at the almost indecent change in the French attitude toward Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French loans, and others, made to czarist Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French peasants, invested in those loans on governmental advice. Like many other governments the French firmly and righteously refused for a many years to deal with Soviet Russia. But the logic of events (and the French, it appears, pride themselves on their logic) forced the two governments to resume diplomatic relations. The threatened military recrudescence of Germany...
...purpose of peaceful demonstration Quite apart from the legal rights of the individual concerned, which should be most scrupulously safeguarded. I believe that a show of temper and or unnecessary roughness by the police tended to induce that very spirit of lawlessness which it was designed to suppress...
...pointed out that the cause of pressure groups is a desire to stabilize their condition in a changing world. The answer to these powerful, organized minorities, he said, is not to try to destroy them or suppress them but to establish a compensated economy which will in part remove the causes of their organization and particularly will remove the large groups of idle proletarians whose votes can be controlled either by bribery or enchainment...
...today are not the great bankers, financiers or real estate racketeers, but the obscure and unknown persons who pass upon letters to the editor and decide what shall and what shall not be printed. From their decision there is no appeal. They can, as many of them do, suppress all letters attacking the grievous wrongs and social injustices of our present economic system. Once in a while, to make a pretense of fairness, a letter criticizing the existing social order may be printed. The rest is silence...