Word: discreditably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly you can understand why I discredit TIME...
...University, where members of the Student L.I.D. and the N.S.L. with boldness, had called a strike. A group of Harvard CRIMSON cub candidates was organized by that newspaper into the Michael Mullins Chowder Club, which was to run a counter meeting in "favor of war" in an effort to discredit the whole strike. The Freshman Dining Halls at Cambridge would supply the pro-war exponents with eggs and tomatoes...
...effect, "Let us be gentlemen in the matter. . After all the objectionable aspects of Nazism are only used to keep the vulgar mobs in control. There is no reason why the methods which Gentlemen are forced to soil their fingers with in the market place should be used to discredit them among other Gentlemen in the drawing room. Business is business;" if the CRIMSON is saying this, then we can have no discussion with it. For we, too, consider that Nazism is the weapon of the German Gentlemen to keep the German mobs in control. Only we think...
...marked contrast to the behavior of the swastika-bedecked hoodlums was the disciplined manner with which the L.I.D. and N.S.L. conducted their meeting. The leadership warned enraged spectators to yield to no provocation to violence, nor to any measures calculated to discredit the demonstration. And all the antics of the Mullins gentlemen could not conceal the sympathetic participation of the larger part of the audience in the strike for peace. Lewis S. Feuer 3G. Secretary, Harvard L.I.D...
...suspended as a result of a general strike. There is very little evidence that Mendieta has or ever had the confidence of the country. He owes his accession to power solely to the discriminatory use which the American government has made of the weapon of recognition in order to discredit his predecessors and force their overthrow. The plain fact of the matter is that Cuba just barely tolerates a conservative government, for the country has become radical at heart due to the desperate economic plight of recent years. The situation since the occasion of Mendieta has improved very little...