Word: discreditment
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...dumped American securities in Switzerland to ruin the U.S. market. Just as inevitably, there was talk about some gigantic plot. In Los Angeles, retired Newspaperman John Gray, 87, who held on to his falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice Soble, 67, a retired toy-store owner, had it all figured out: "They're doing it because they're sore...
Bidwell partisans suggested that the leak was part of a concerted Administration drive to discredit Wall Street, and Bidwell himself in a bitter statement implied that the Government had deliberately waited until he became chairman of the Exchange to prosecute...
...where the European allies met in 1818 to divide up the spoils after Napoleon's final defeat, that the Rothschilds elevated themselves from moneyed power to financial grandeur. Secretly manipulating European markets to the point of imminent crash, the Rothschilds managed to discredit rival moneylenders and emerged as bankers for all the huge reparations the victors extracted from defeated France. Thereafter their aura outshone the cunning it derived from...
...cheerfully reports that Stanton was possessed of a "wily versatility in ingratiating himself simultaneously with men of widely divergent views," and was more than willing to advance his career by setting his sail to catch the political winds. There is even evidence. Hyman admits, that Stanton connived to discredit his predecessor so that he could...
...should be able to tell Lord Home why: whatever the theoretically proper thing to do, the great world powers are simply not capable of acting together on issues like Goa or the Congo. The Cold War and their own conflicting interests cripple them. Thus, Lord Home's eagerness to discredit an admittedly flawed United Nations makes him forget that it is the only instrument the world has at the moment. In the Congo, it may even be succeeding in establishing peace--which is surely more than any great power action there could do. (Parenthetically, one hopes that Kennedy will...