Word: discreditably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposition developed from two quarters : Southern and Western Democrats who feared that any such upheaval of Prohibition might play advantageously into the hands of the Wets; regular Republicans who feared that such an inquiry would tend to discredit the National Law Enforcement Commission and thus nullify President Hoover's attempts to deal with this problem in his own peculiar...
...help us are still twelve human beings who react to honesty and chicanery just as we all do. In testifying before them, avoid the 'smart-aleck' attitude, the dogged attitude, and nervous hesitancy. Keep your temper. A clever cross-examiner will draw you out, emphasize your faults, and so discredit your testimony in the eyes of the jury. But the policeman armed with the truth has a 90 per cent advantage over any crooked lawyer...
...compliance of the city administration. The city council had shown signs of sympathy, but Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and his cronies, with no definite plan of their own, offered only bitter opposition. Members of the Thompson cabinet charged, perhaps accurately, that Mr. Strawn's object was to discredit the administration, force Mayor Thompson out of office. The Mayor, apparently insensitive to the city's shocking condition, merely sneered at the Citizens' Rescue Committee as "reformers...