Word: disavower
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...death has not been in vain and that out of it will come what we long for. The murderers of this German soldier are not identified with the millions of our racial brethren across the border. If these, our brethren, could freely raise their voices they would solemnly disavow the murderers and the principles responsible for this bloody crime...
...Jewish following is strong in McKee's Bronx. "I call on you," he wired LaGuardia, "to disavow it unequivocally and without reservation...
Politically and practically the G. O. P. plank meant less than it said because all Republican candidates, as individuals, were specifically freed from its provisions. This was the weasel paragraph. President Hoover, as nominee for reelection, might, if he chose, disavow, his party's pledge on the ground that "his honest convictions" were against any change. Likewise G. O. P. nominees for Congress are not bound to vote for the new amendment. Thus the voters might return a Republican majority to the House only to discover that most of them had Dry "convictions," were able to block resubmission...
...inflation it should be brought about by a simple method which everybody may understand and not by the roundabout process which is being vainly tried by the Federal Reserve authorities. I think there should be 'diffusive' inflation rather than so-called 'controlled' inflation. ... I distinctly disavow the belief that any of these legislative devices is necessary at this time. I simply offered the bill as a substitute for the Goldsborough bill which I regard with the utmost aversion...
...husband of Mary, his only sister, was in such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June 15), how Dry Senator Heflin suffered when his son Tom Tom Jr. misbehaved with liquor (TIME, July 1, Sept...