Word: contradicting
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...world in which dollars are provided only on commercial loan terms. They also profess to want a world in which international trade moves freely between the countries without such wartime obstructions as exchange controls, license restrictions and discriminations. Now clearly they cannot have both, for the two aspirations contradict each other...
...Norman Somers told the court that if the letter were not judged an act of contempt, NLRB was "about to . throw in the sponge." Retorted Judge Charles Alvin Jones: "Where is the prohibition against a man saying he doesn't like a labor organization?" He proceeded to contradict the common understanding of the Wagner Act's ban on free speech for employers...
Certain facts about Ideal Marine Lou Diamond the Corps admitted reluctantly: that his real first name is Leland, that he is 53 years old, got through grammar school and eight years as switchman on the Michigan Central ($62.50 a week) be fore signing up in 1917. These contradict what every Marine has long sworn is truth: that Lou Diamond is at least 200, joined the Corps in 1775, has never been anything but a Marine...
...principal victims of miscarried news are the American public and not their press. To withhold from this public information which might "aid or comfort the enemy" is recognized as essential by every fair-minded citizen; but when the enemy is able, on the other hand, to truthfully contradict statements issued by the War Department on American losses, a situation has arisen that is hardly morale-building. Just such was the case when Secretary of War Stimson was forced to admit last week that members of General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing party are now prisoners of Japan. After the raid Doolittle...
There were some French exiles last week who objected to General de Gaulle's statement, seeing behind it personal political ambitions. This week General de Gaulle took special pains to contradict his critics...