Word: discreditable
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...Swan, also of the CCA, dislike and distrust Lynch and have split their three votes among themselves. These men are the backers of Plan E. They are responsible for its continuing success in a city that still wants to be shown. If, through personal ambition and mutual dislike, they discredit that most excellent plan, one can only guess to what depths their I.Q. has plummeted...
...figure. A conference committee was appointed to adjust the difference; and that was the last ever to be heard from the legislative budget. One of the most valuable portions of the Legislative Reorganization Act had been emasculated by trying to use in as a political tool with which to discredit the President. Republican leaders had formulated the size of the cut before they even saw the budget...
According to one necessarily anonymous speculator yesterday, "such gentry only reflect discredit on the initiated members of the profession. They are not taking what we patrons of the Goddess Fortuna are went to describe as a sporting chance...
...small, backward countries of eastern and southern Europe, the Communists needed only to discredit, jail or kill a few men to silence all opposition. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept...
Signs of Peace? When he takes over his new job next fortnight, Cy Ching will have the chance to give that formula its most searching test. In labor's determined campaign to bypass or discredit the Taft-Hartley Act,* there were only faint signs of peace last week...