Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment and in juxtaposition with such trash as flowed from Professor Goring's pen is enough to suggest that the scientific conscience of the great Zurich psychologist is not inflexible. Anyhow, those who are on the alert for Nordic bullies or who, for one reason or another, wish to discredit Dr. Jung, have seized upon this solitary leaf from this published works in order to prove that he is unworthy of Harvard honors. As far as I know there are no other examples of this kind either before or during the three years since the publication of the above mentioned...
...League gives its official approval to the true biography of Mr. William Randolph Hearst by Airs. Fremont Older. It denounces the other current biographies of this great American as stink-bombs. They are petty attempts of persons in the pay of Moscow to discredit the person who has done most to help rid the country of the red menace, to save the country's honor, to deliver the suffering Cubans from the yoke of Spain, to make the United States safe for democracy, to keep 'America for the Americans...
...President Roosevelt personally has set in motion a campaign to discredit, if possible, the effectiveness of those Washington correspondents who write articles critical of his Administration. . . . The direct connection between the public attack made by the Democratic National Committee on various Washington correspondents and the President's conversations in private is no longer a secret and in the public interest ought not to be. ... If writers who are conscientiously trying to write their impressions of what is happening in Washington are to be made the objects of a punitive campaign because they happen to disagree, this, too, ought...
...conspicuous victim of the attack of the new movement, but the commander obligingly stuck his neck out right in the path of the arrows. Having branded the Veterans of Future Wars as yellow, Mr. Van Zandt was accused of being the "tool of Moscow" in his unpatriotic efforts to discredit America's future soldiers. Professional patriots belong to the lowest intellectual group in the country, and it should not be hard to beat them with equal success in future encounters...
...Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser risk seemed well worth taking: Jasper Bell, at the worst, would probably be able to discredit the Townsend Plan by showing that a lot of oldsters' dues money was going down a hopeless drain...