Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After he had lashed out at "this antiquated capitalistic system," Hicks went on to explain red-baiting as the product of two factors; first, capitalism's recognition of the Communists as its clearest-sighted and hardest-working opponents; second, the desire to discredit all liberal movements...
...Governor Murphy's handling of the 1937 automobile strike was "a great achievement of a great American," as the President enthusiastically pronounced, is really of less importance to the nation than the conduct of the Senate committee. From first to last this committee has brought ridicule on itself and discredit on the practice of legislative investigation by admitting biased personal opinion to dominate its discussions. Shadow-boxing with Communism and Fascism, charges that went to the ultimate of inanity in associating subversive activity with Shirley Temple--this has been the product of what might have been a profitable investigation...
Moreover, University officers have the right to ask that undergraduates refrain from acts that will bring widespread discredit on Harvard and make their task more difficult than it already...
...after Thursday's incident it is plain that the Cambridge Police Department is only too eager to help undergraduates bring discredit on Harvard...
...have come to value photography more and more," says Charles Sheeler, "for those things which it alone can accomplish rather than to discredit it for the things which can only be achieved through another medium...