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Word: discredit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this way there will be removed an implied discredit (unintentional, I am sure) to that famous Shrine, where the real miracle consists in the fact that in spite of the various maladies of many of the pilgrims, neither epidemic nor contagion has ever occurred there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1935 | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...against the Public Utility Bill was the aftermath of a House revolt at Administration pressure on Representatives to compel them to accept the "death sentence" clause for holding companies. Senator Black's investigation of the same thing was sponsored by friends of the "death sentence" who sought so to discredit the utilities in the headlines that the House would have to reverse its position on the "death sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Investigation by Headlines | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...Liggett, famed muckraker for Plain Talk, Common Sense, et al., now publisher of the Minneapolis MidWest American, on a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl. Muckraker Liggett's Wife Edith promptly countercharged that "Governor Floyd B. Olson's gang" was trying to "disgrace and discredit Walter by making the alleged offense as dirty and infamous as possible. . . . The prosecution of Walter is one of the foulest frame-ups ever engineered. . . . [Walter has] demanded the impeachment of the Governor on ten definite counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Court Troubles | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...scrapbooks at the disposal of the Argentine Post Office. No dispatch will be passed or approved by an Argentine censor in advance, but the Post Office can levy fines against the deposited bond "if the news is false, or contrary to public morals or public order or tending to discredit Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Justo, Justice & Joust | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

Since no Argentine from the President down could have taken a step more likely to discredit Argentina than the promulgation of this decree, intelligent Argentines were left gasping in amazement. The highly literate and weighty newsorgans La Prensa and La Nation, models of Latin journalism and traditional adversaries on almost every issue, united for once and for three days printed editorials hurling against President Justo every weapon of argument, deprecation, criticism, sarcasm, invective and ridicule. They added that the decree flatly violates the Argentine Constitution's pledge of freedom of the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Justo, Justice & Joust | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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