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Anchorites and Dynamite. Then, to augment the Jewish terrorists, there arrived a surprising ally-the Nazis. Three Luftwaffe officers parachuted by night, probably from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Stern Gangsters | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Anti-labor publications have magnified the soda pop angle in order to discredit Detroit labor, without the magnificent achievements of whom the United Nations would be in a tough spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...soul pays a bit of attention to their news or editorials. We know what they call news is mostly exaggeration, ballyhoo or propaganda written under the direction of the publisher. This is especially true in the political field where all events are presented in such a way as to discredit the President and the Administration. I am referring to perhaps 70% of the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name so as to weaken the force of his ideology? . . . Trotskyites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Day of Culture and Rest | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...lost touch with opinion, Congressional and public. This was easily negated: the President was not too immersed in the war to shake up his Term IV staff, and insert a fresh young leader, Robert Hannegan, as Democratic National Chairman. 2) That the President had deliberately set out to discredit Congress as a campaign technique, aimed mainly at soldiers, who are supposedly angry with Congress over the soldiers' vote bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barkley Incident | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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