Word: suppressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies benefiting from defense contracts were also able to suppress criticism through advertising contracts. Pearson said a prominent magazine once refused to print an article of his attacking former Defense Secretary Wilson because the editor was worried about losing an important General Motors contract...
Robert Shann, leader of the picketers and an M.I.T. graduate, stated "the article in the CRIMSON probably alerted these incipient Fascists to organizing." The nervous, tense, egg-bespattered Socialist charged the hecklers with "using Fascist tactics to suppress expression...
...Americans best qualified to tell the President and the Congress how the government can assist artistic endeavor. Possibly the country will be treated to another four years in which the bizarre philosophy flourishes: 100 experts equal truth, but if the truth they equal is too true to be good, suppress...
...picture of the people's struggle and anger. They pointed out the dangers of the military pact [i.e., the U.S.-Japanese security treaty] and wrote many articles, editorials and commentaries pointing out the wrongdoing of the government and the government party." When a few Japanese publishers sought to suppress such "freedom of expression," they were soon forced to begin "reporting the truth again, largely as the result of pressure put on them by the democratic journalists and labor unions in the papers...
This arrest is a despotic move by the Chiang Kai-shek government to suppress freedom of speech and to abuse basic human rights. It is despotism such as this that fomented the tragedy of Cuba and the China mainland...