Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informed that the New Puritanism seeks by legal means to suppress corrupting agencies and to crystallize in- to laws the old ideas of our Puritan forebears. Crimes of vice, accordingly should be on a par with crimes of violence in the eyes of the law since the former so often, cause the latter...
...that schools are meant to run, like municipal industrial corporations, for the greatest public good at the least public cost. Secretary Hoover himself appeared at another meeting, told his hearers that the country's educational plant is greater than any other plant it operates, warned: "If we were to suppress our educational system for a single generation, we should slip back 4,000 years in human progress...
Press Agents Flayed. "The function of any publicity man is to emphasize favorable news for his clients, and to suppress unfavorable news. Such a man renders no service to the public interested in the truth. Publicity is a blatant fraud upon the public, and the publicity agent commits an outrage when he colors news to suit his client's wishes"-James Wright Brown, Publisher of Editor and Publisher...
...Yale; I have nothing against Harvard, but I believe that if some millionaire had put Abraham Lincoln in Yale or Harvard, he would never have been placed in Who's Who. The reason for this," he continued, "is that they are over-organized, over-standardized and over-specialized. They suppress genius and put a premium on mediocrity." The New Student
...German concessions: 1) Curtailment of the authority of General von Seeckt, autocratic head of the German Reichswehr. 2) The famed German military police to be demilitarized, and their characteristic green uniform replaced by that of the ordinary police. 3) The German Government to suppress the military training now being given to members of "athletic societies" throughout the Reich...