Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circle took place in the winter of 1941 and 1942-mostly in 1942. The conscription act was passed by Congress in September 1940. . . . Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, and American businessmen were just as much against Hitler as was Mr. Davies. . . . The whole effort is to discredit Congress and at the same time to represent the Soviet dictatorship as an advanced democracy...
...Lewis won, he would stand forth as a stronger man than the U.S. President, a position calculated to discredit Mr. Roosevelt and lower the prestige of his office. He had already made some progress toward that position...
...that he was doing his wanton best to discredit all plans for world cooperation...
Concerning U. S. neglect of India, Welles stated that the Indian peoples have been assured freedom to choose their government after the war. In his letter, Professor Perry had recited criticisms of the State Department "which we believe unfounded but which . . . may bring unmerited discredit on the State Department...
There was no attempt to discredit the conference's real contribution in unifying Anglo-U.S. plans to bring Hitler's fortress of Europe tumbling down about German ears. But something was missing. The overture to the grand invasion of Europe held no thread of melody for the common man to whistle at his work...