Word: discreditable
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...series of hearings which began in Detroit last week may help decide how free a radio station is to broadcast what it pleases. The Federal Communications Commission is investigating charges that a station owner ordered his employees to slant the news to discredit people and groups such as the Roosevelt family and the Roosevelt and Truman administrations...
Republicans cried that Harry Truman was trying to discredit the whole law. The law provided, they pointed out, that the Attorney General might admit aliens temporarily at his own discretion. But the law also specified that he had to make a full report to Congress on each case every time he did so-and no Attorney General was likely to leave himself open to criticism when rigorous enforcement would save him the trouble...
...State and ran out on me ... when I needed him worst. His 'bad heart' has now left him when he has found that he made a bad guess [on the 1948 election]. So he and old Baruch have joined the McCormicks, Hearsts and Scripps-Howards to discredit me. They will not succeed." The President thought Byrnes had been too soft to Russia at the Moscow foreign ministers' meeting in December 1945. "Byrnes got the real riot act after Moscow," Mr. Truman recalled. "I told him our policy was not appeasement and not a one-way street...
...responsibility of adult nations. We should, as occasion allows, take them into our confidence and seek their advice as equals. We must continue to cooperate with them as friends for the common objectives of improving life and securing human freedom in the hemisphere, and not for motives that would discredit our cooperation...
...defending the extraordinary performance of the Justice Department. On the Republican side, Congressmen appeared to be more anxious to exploit half truths than to get at whole truths. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, largely responsible for the latest furor, had dug the case out again in his effort to discredit the State Department, and that seemed to keep many a solid Republican from joining in the demand for a full investigation...