Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been able to win widespread confidence on both sides of the bargaining table while borrowing money under curious circumstances from businessmen with Teamster contracts, consorting with hoods and ruthlessly pushing around local Teamster leaders who got in his way. He teamed up with New York Racketeer Johnny Dio to discredit old-time Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey and to dethrone Martin Lacey from the presidency of the powerful New York Teamsters Joint Council 16 (some 60 locals). Hoffa succeeded ultimately: his man John O'Rourke finally became president of the council. Now Old Teamster Hickey is standing...
...sensitivity to criticism that neither the Associated Press nor the United Press filed a single story on the fight. Nor was it an isolated skirmish. On a grander scale, some TV network executives charge, economic rivalry is prompting newspapers to wage a subtle and far-reaching campaign to discredit TV even while they promote it. Item: Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram and Sun in the past month has run four Page One stories quoting authorities ranging from Poet Carl Sandburg to Scriptwriter Goodman Ace in dispraise of TV's "cultural smog" and "deathless mediocrity...
WROTE Alabama's Senator Black in Harper's in 1936, at the peak of his fame as a congressional investigator of utility lobbies: "An investigation is precisely what it purports to be-an investigation. Sometimes attempts are made to discredit it by calling it a fishing expedition. It is not a trial based upon an indictment where the facts are already known and merely need presentation to a jury. It is a study by the government of circumstances which seem to call for study in the public interest. And the public hearing is usually, certainly in important investigations...
...served twice as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, is now the leading Christian spokesman for the opposition, and dearly wants to succeed incumbent Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon. Hamid is convinced that Chamoun's government put up pistol-packing Father Dweihi as a candidate only to discredit the Franjieh clan and to block his own chances at the presidency...
...quoted Harvard Law Dean Erwin Griswold, a leading advocate of the anything-goes school of Fifth Amendment pleading. And a concurring opinion by Justice Hugo Black (with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices William Douglas and William J. Brennan) argued that the use of the Fifth Amendment should neither "discredit" nor "convict" any person...