Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intent of the author of the Sun's "facts to discredit the Commission, he chose an admirable time, considering that Congress now has the above mentioned bills before it. That the plan backfired is a fortuitous accident, and fortune is not always so kind. In fact the impression resulting from the original story may not be entirely erased, because retractions or modifications are never so eye-filling as eight column banner headlines...
They have proved pretty conclusively that they are fine picture makers - with or without Coward. Without a flop to their discredit so far, the trio has Rank's fondest blessings. Cineguild's next job: Oliver Twist...
...spread of wildcatting. Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison, in his first public speech after five months of illness, tried pleading. Said he: "Unofficial strikes are really strikes against trade unionism and against trade union democracy. If these adventures which are damaging our national economy continue . . . [they] will bring discredit upon the whole labor movement. To the trade union rank & file I would say: Resist the activities of men who bring you into conflict with your union...
...meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best of a bad spot, the Soviet Government played on the people's acute wants to discredit the rich U.S. Recently, the Soviet press reported that the U.S. was dumping potatoes to keep prices up, and the magazine Krokodil shed some tears...
...then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because "it proposes before anything else to discredit the U.S.S.R. in the Near and Middle-East...