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...Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small or old or indirect for the Couzens committee to dig up and magnify into a sinister link with the "power trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Power Men Scrutinized | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...Holy Land. In those days we learned to look up to you for your integrity and high sense of honor. In this hour of crisis your soldiers appeal to you to prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honor and to discredit the British sense of fair play and justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jewry Stands Aghast! | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...bulletin to the press he formally charged that, in order to discredit the Fascist Party, the Communist Party caused its members to smash the windows and to shout with diabolic cunning as they did so, "Hail Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plate Glass Riots | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...than a broad hint. The head of the English Department at Hunter College and John Macy offer their work to the public as the latest contribution to the "Ask Me Another" game and then go on to hope it may "lure the reader into further readings". Without attempting to discredit this landable ambition, suffice it to say that "Do You Know English Literature?" is just the sort of thing for those frantic hours when "further readings" is impractical...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: BOOKENDS | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lost Judge | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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