Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness stand and be gan to tell a federal jury in San Francisco how he had heard Bridges address a Communist National Committee meeting in 1936, how he recalled voting to "re-elect" Bridges to the national committee two years later under the alias of "Rossi." Attempting to discredit the testimony, Defense Attorney James M. MacInnis got the witness to admit he had never seen Harry Bridges at a national committee meeting after...
Watson favored the Council's revisions which "place the responsibility (for proper conduct) with the organizations, rather than with the Deans' office." He then said that the administrators want to step into the affairs of organizations only when discredit to the College is likely...
...Reds slyly used the Episcopate's concession to discredit the church. President Gottwald freed 127 priests (jailed as hostages for their opposition to the government's new church laws), because they had "promised to mend their ways." A state court judge told the released priests: "I beg you to consider the significance and implied pledge of this magnanimous...
Last week the union's executive board accused him of bringing his beloved Woodworkers "into discredit," fired him despite an appeal from his $1,700-a-year job, said he could hold no union job for ten months. Kennedy said he had kept his hand in at carpentering, but feared no one would hire him; he had a brother and a widowed mother to support. Said he truculently: "I am convinced that my dismissal is part of the campaign against the Communists...
...could discredit the testimony of Bourbon County's senior judge, and Ed Prichard did not even try. He refused to testify in his own defense...