Word: discreditment
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...triStates. Naturally when serious shooting, stabbing, beating are administered in neighboring parts, first thought is of Memphis. The city is more than glad to offer its well-equipped hospitals, skillful surgeons to dying men, but when time is a more potent factor than medical science, it is unfair to discredit Memphis with the murder...
...malicious rumors in connection with Mayor Russell's request and the response made to it by University authorities. The fact that the whole project was immediately dropped by both parties when its illegality was discovered puts an end to the threatened investigation by the legislature, but was insufficient to discredit the reports circulated...
...product of Spectator's interest in the intercollegiate football situation. The efforts of Spectator and other college newspapers to keep the names of their editors and editorial writers from the professional press furnish ample evidence that the alleged interest in publicity is a fiction conceived by critics desiring to discredit honest efforts to bring about improvement in the university world. It is time that the general public faced the fact that college editors are sincere. Columbia Spectator
Persecution. Bishop Cannon was in Atlanta at a church conference (see p. 22) when he heard of the indictment. No one was surprised to hear him say: "This is merely a plot to discredit me. a persecution by a Roman Catholic district attorney acting under orders of his priest.'' (The case had been turned over by Catholic District Attorney Rover to Protestant Assistant District Attorney John J. Wilson, who presented the evidence to the Grand Jury last month.) With bond set at $1.000 and the trial slated for some time before Jan. i, Bishop Cannon said...
...issue, then," he continued, "is not between China and Japan, as it seems, but between the militaristic and liberal parties of Japan alone, the militarists hoping to discredit and annoy the liberals by stirring up trouble with a foreign nation." Proof of this is shown by the fact that Cheng Haseuh-Tiang, vice-commander-in-chief of the army of China, from the first clash with the Japanese, made every effort to get out of fighting, ordered the troops to remain in the barracks, and tried to avoid trouble as much as was possible, relying on the League of Nations...