Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painful hour last week, Candidate Henry Wallace met the press-and seemed to do his best to discredit himself completely with it. Publicists for his "Progressive Party" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had hopefully billed the session in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel as a press conference, but it quickly degenerated into a battle between a pale, harried Wallace and red-faced, angry newsmen...
...flew to Berlin, where, still mystified by the charges against him, he said: "The Russian leaders first of all want to isolate their people from foreigners living in the Soviet Union . . . One way of doing this is to try to discredit the foreigners by making them appear evil people, degenerates or spies...
...Swan, also of the CCA, dislike and distrust Lynch and have split their three votes among themselves. These men are the backers of Plan E. They are responsible for its continuing success in a city that still wants to be shown. If, through personal ambition and mutual dislike, they discredit that most excellent plan, one can only guess to what depths their I.Q. has plummeted...
...figure. A conference committee was appointed to adjust the difference; and that was the last ever to be heard from the legislative budget. One of the most valuable portions of the Legislative Reorganization Act had been emasculated by trying to use in as a political tool with which to discredit the President. Republican leaders had formulated the size of the cut before they even saw the budget...
According to one necessarily anonymous speculator yesterday, "such gentry only reflect discredit on the initiated members of the profession. They are not taking what we patrons of the Goddess Fortuna are went to describe as a sporting chance...