Word: discreditably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldtime Tammany foe. Justice Crater was not only a Tammanyman, but also president of the Cayuga Club, had been toastmaster at the dinner celebrating Magistrate Ewald's appointment. But when Attorney Tuttle, apprised of the Justice's disappearance, examined his records, nothing was found to discredit...
...discredit of England that her benevolent despotism (with emphasis on the word benevolent) has, except for occasional righteous outbursts, permitted her to fall for the "sales talk" of a few impractical dreamers, and gradually switch the governing of the country from the hands of those who know the futility of altruism to a class whose ideals are motivated by a desire to be rid of an oppressively progressive people...
...action of Judge Moskowitz, from the whole of the testimony, is not only not to be endorsed but is deserving of condemnation as unethical and dangerous and threatening the destruction of the confidence of the bar and the community in the court and calculated to bring it into discredit...
...President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, flayed "price-fixing," and the Farm Board's "heavyhanded policy." The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce roared angry protests, claimed the Board would ruin grain dealers. Chairman Legge, sitting on 25 million bushels of wheat, scorned these protests as "propaganda" to discredit the Board, bragged...
...Guardsmen quickly spread the impression that President Hoover held the Coalition responsible for the tariff delay. The White House cautiously bolstered up this belief by hints that the recovery of Business and Industry after the stockmarket crash was being retarded by the tariff. Every partisan effort was made to discredit the Coalition's management of the tariff bill. The Coalition's defense: The House without adequate debate had passed a tariff bill with exorbitantly high rates; the Senate had to revise the whole measure; revision with fair debate took time. Declared Senator Borah: "Time is not nearly so important...