Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administrative Board is of the opinion that disturbances such as that of April 21, which are likely to lead to consequences far more serious than anticipated, which are of great annoyance to the public and to the city authorities, and which bring discredit upon the College can be avoided only by developing among the undergraduates a strong public sentiment against such conduct...
Chief heckler was Indiana's loud Senator Robinson, a War veteran and ardent pension booster. "Outrageous!" he cried when Lobbyist Bullitt called most disability payments "doles, pure and simple," and pointed to Civil War pensions as a "bad principle." Senator Robinson tried to discredit N. E. L. by showing that Lobbyist Bullitt also represented Associated Gas & Electric, "one of the most reckless units in the power trust." The Indianian insisted N. E. L. was being supported by wealthy taxpayers trying to shirk their share of War costs...
During the last few years, a few students have caused annoyance to the public and have brought discredit on the College by taking part in disturbances in the Boston Elevated trains after Harvard hockey games at the Boston Garden. In view of this fact, it seems desirable at this time to call attention to the attitude of the Student Council, as representatives of the undergraduates, and of the Administration Board in regard to this matter. On February 11, 1932, the Student Council made public the following resolution...
Such activities were plainly a discredit to union labor. President Green referred the Kaplan case to William Elliott, head of the international union, declaring that such accusations involved the "honor and integrity of the Federation," warned that the A. F. of L. might "suspend an international union which failed to act on proof of wrongdoing...
...unqualified liar," called him a "paid railroad lobbyist" declared that Mr. Lisman had had to apologize for similar statements last summer just when he (Ashburn) was about to sue for defamation of character. According to General Ashburn, all testimony in Chicago was part of a "railroad plot" to discredit his barge line. In the barge line's latest (1931) annual balance sheet, General Ashburn reports a net operating income of $298,756 and a deduction from cash revenues of $563,287 for depreciation. What infuriates railmen and bankers like Mr. Lisman are statements by General Ashburn like this...