Word: discreditable
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...spread of wildcatting. Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison, in his first public speech after five months of illness, tried pleading. Said he: "Unofficial strikes are really strikes against trade unionism and against trade union democracy. If these adventures which are damaging our national economy continue . . . [they] will bring discredit upon the whole labor movement. To the trade union rank & file I would say: Resist the activities of men who bring you into conflict with your union...
...meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best of a bad spot, the Soviet Government played on the people's acute wants to discredit the rich U.S. Recently, the Soviet press reported that the U.S. was dumping potatoes to keep prices up, and the magazine Krokodil shed some tears...
...then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because "it proposes before anything else to discredit the U.S.S.R. in the Near and Middle-East...
...subpoena I received today on the eve of the elections from the Wood-Rankin Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, is an obvious political maneuver to discredit the activities of all independent voters in this election, particularly in the contest between Martha Sharpe and Joseph Martin," Shapley declared when he had seen the subpoena...
...veterans' privileges, the question of who deserved what and why has exposed the Merchant Seamen to a sustained attack from old-line veterans' organizations and from the conservative press, which would use a drive against the unpopular maritime labor organizations as an opening wedge in a drive to discredit the advances of industrial unionism. Hanson Baldwin, naval expert of the New York Times, last week traced a whole epidemic of wartime sins to the activities of sea-going unions, and continued to east a good deal of doubt over the accomplishments of the merchant fleet. Using charges of bonanza payments...