Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pleasing to the Holy See was a despatch from Chile, last week, announcing that the Archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Crescentio Errazuriz, had so far prevailed on the Chilean Government to modify its Constitutional attempt to suppress Roman Catholic instruction in the schools that hereafter such instruction will be optional with the parents of pupils. It will be imparted not by State paid teachers; but by priests whose expenses must be defrayed by the Church...
Further Provisos. 1) Panama will suppress any radio apparatus set up within her borders upon notice from the U. S. that it is to the detriment of the defenses of the Canal. 2) Upon due notice, the armed forces of the U. S. may proceed into or through Panama, even in peace time, for "maneuvers or other military purposes." 3) The flight of U. S. military aircraft over Panama shall be unrestricted, but other foreign aircraft shall be regulated with the cardinal purpose of protecting the Canal. 4) The U. S. receives in perpetuity the "use, occupation and control...
...Nodded sardonic approval as Viscount Burnham whimsically expounded the Judicial Proceedings Act to suppress publication of evidence in divorce cases (TIME, Dec. 20) as follows...
...Schund und Schmutz." Herr Doktor Wilhelm Kuelz, Minister of Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed...
Where is General Obregon? What is he doing? At present that doughty one-armed fighter is the commanding General of the 30,000 troops being placed in the field by President Calles (TIME, Oct. 4) to suppress and exterminate the Yaqui Indians, a group of tribes continuously rebellious against the succeeding governments of Mexico since the Spanish conquest...