Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite clear that it is the deliberate intention of that editorial to attempt to make trouble among the American delegates, to discredit our Government before the Japanese delegation and thus to try to cause a breakdown of the London conference. . . . The Washington Post has a full right to oppose a limitation in arms, but I do not believe the American people approve of attempts to humiliate and cause dissension in their Government before representatives of foreign governments...
...week wiry Welshman David Lloyd George, suffering from a bad cold, said the MacDonald doings were "only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions of men and 50,000 guns to put against a nation with 166,000 men and no guns? So long as these instruments of war exist there...
...undergraduates of Harvard threaten to take young Cohen in charge and to give him the "water cure" before he brings further discredit upon the venerable institution at which he is an accredited student...
...Denounced stockmarket gambling. A few days later Bishop Cannon himself was disclosed as a buyer and seller of stocks on margin in Wall Street. While not denying the facts, he loudly complained it was all "a contemptible Tammany trick" to discredit him at the opening of his Virginia campaign...
...repudiating his claim, that Senator Watson was a Klansman was prepared and, when Rogers refused to sign it, his name was clumsily forged to it. For this forgery one man has already been sent to prison. Plaintiff Rogers now seeks settlement from the rest who, he believes, tried to discredit...