Word: disavower
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...Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...
...Chamber quieted he continued: "Any attempt to inculcate hostility to the glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...
Meanwhile United, conservative, waited at Greensboro for the Gastonia strikers to disavow National and invite United to enter and organize in Gastonia...
...Feng retreated into Mongolia, consolidated his forces there, then hurried to Moscow where he allegedly obtained enormous grants of gold, supplies, arms, ammunition. Therefore it was pretty to see last week, how Marshal Feng managed to convey the impression that he is not a Communist, yet carefully did not disavow or antagonize the Soviet Government...
...inevitably express certain views and advocate or join in certain policies, which expressions, however guarded and conditioned, would be looked upon by Europe as American commitments, while on the other hand the American Congress might take a differing attitude and the American Senate would consider itself perfectly free to disavow such views and policies and to reject any such commitments as would be subject to its control...