Word: repression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very large extent the specific recommendations made by our church groups have been given effect. The basic conception of Dumbarton Oaks was that a few great powers would wield overwhelming military might to repress violence. The nations represented at San Francisco found that conception unacceptable. A few feared that the Great Powers would in fact agree upon a use of force which unguided by moral principles would be oppressive and unjust. Many more feared that the five Great Powers would be unable to agree among themselves and that the Security Council would be impotent as an organ for action. This...
...issue of academic freedom involving other men, Professor Beard resigned from Columbia with the statement: "I cannot repress my astonishment that America . . . has made the status of the professor lower than that of the manual laborer, who, through his union, has at least some voice in the terms and conditions of his employment." Next day the New York Times ran an editorial titled: "Columbia's Deliverance...
...guns of Camp Columbia were trained on La Punta fortress. Batista ordered the arrest of Colonel Pedraza and of Lieut. Colonels Gonzalez and Garcia, replaced them. Next morning all the rebels were in custody. To the Army and nation the President declared that it had been necessary to "repress" his Army and Navy chiefs because of their "attitude of sedition," but that "a deep crisis which endangered the stability of the Republic has been vanquished." Victorious, he motored back to the Palace, tired but smiling...
...ruling should not be taken to mean that Harvard University intends in the future to clamp down on minority views--to repress unpopular causes in the Yard. Little basis for such accusations may be found in the records of the Dean's Office. Harvard's Young Communist League, for instance, has not in the past been prevented from distributing its flyers, although because it fears discrimination, it has refused to register at University Hall. Under the new regulations, such outlaw groups will still be liable to suppression. But Dean von Stade assures us this will not be the case. Official...
...were made almost a decade ago but are still excellent. Among numerous single $1 discs, at least one-Pianist Paderewski's performance of Chopin's Polonaise in E Flat Minor-suffers from surface noise, low recording volume. With its catalogue of 7,500 matrices from which to repress, Victor could claim that it had the edge on Decca in quality; that it can now fill what seems to have become an enormous U. S. demand for low-priced discs...