Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Joseph Silverman's friend, Colonel McMullen, was tried on four counts, ranging from bribery to acceptance of railroad tickets "wrongfully, dishonorably and to the discredit of the military service." The whole trouble arose over some 700,000 woolen union suits which Silverman bought from the Government for 14½? apiece, contracting to resell them abroad. Later he got his contract changed so he could resell them...
Having succeeded in stirring up a rousing jamboree with Democratic discredit for its occasion, and Major-General Hagood for its toastmaster and buffoon, the Republicans have generously withdrawn from the fun, and left the opera bouffa to their distracted rivals. Through the pungent clouds of gas that hang over Congress and the War Department loom one or two incontrovertible facts...
Again adjournment was necessary to shut Félix up, but more effective measures to discredit him followed. France's so-called grande presse d'information, the big newsorgans controlled by substantial interests, undertook to slay him with ridicule and such "information" as that last year on Bastille Day he posted stickers in Paris lavatories inviting all Frenchmen of courage to meet him on a designated street corner the following day for the purpose of attacking the Bank of France...
...Hoffman has not missed an opportunity to discredit himself with the world at large. When he granted Hauptmann a reprieve barely a day before the appointed time of execution, and then failed to bring forward any new evidence, many people voiced the suspicion that he was making a particularly cheap bid for publicity. Now out of his own month he has given proof of his moral cowardice...
...idea? ... To ridicule our next Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet? Whatever the idea, I think what you have said in the quotation above, even if it were true, and it is not true, is in extremely bad taste. A gourmet he may be, and that is no discredit; a gourmand, by which you mean a greedy eater, a glutton, he could never be. I messed with him many months and I know. If he likes fine wines, caviar-whose business is it but his own? Does that make him less fitted to be Commander-in-Chief? . . . H. A. WILEY...