Word: discreditably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim that Mr. Hurley is deliberately seeking to discredit Superintendent Gill is only too obvious when one compares with the actual facts the following statement in the Boston Post: "According to State Auditor Hurley the shortage (at Norfolk) was discovered when Hurley and State Comptroller George E. Murphy went to Norfolk early in November." Actually this shortage ($468.70) was reported two weeks earlier to Hurley by Gill...
...debased by the introduction of frivolity. There is a definite place for a course or practice of round-table public discussion, a kind of glorified and intelligent bull-session on a specified subject, but there can be no compromise between debating and conference argumentation. A hybrid will but bring discredit to both arts. --Cornell Daily...
...regret, Senator, that we must offend again. We are inexperienced in the field of practical politics but we are not ignorant of the inactivity of your committee. . . . Your committee has kept your investigator in Washington, permitting him to do nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss...
...trial for trying to escape income taxes as a result of testimony he gave the Senate last winter. Under President Hoover the Senate's inquiry was given a twist against Wall Street "bears" whom he imagined were thwarting his recovery program, beating the market down to discredit him. Under President Roosevelt the Committee is out to hunt bad bankers. Ironic was the implication of big Demo-crats along with big Republicans...
...that Chief Casey's concern over the expense of the oxygen hardly exceeded his interest in saving the life; Casey's real reason for calling off the rescue appears to be the same one which has prompted him to interfere on several other occasions -- he is determined to discredit and to make as difficult as possible the work of the rescue squad and the modern life-saving equipment which have recently been installed through efforts of Mayor Russell...