Word: impugnment
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...most of the opposition to the President's choice as chairman of the new U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, the irresponsible name-calling and the disturbing display of political opportunism threaten the very development and management of atomic power in this country. Moreover, the rapidly-growing tendency to impugn a man's qualifications for a position, simply because he holds opinions either to the political left or right of the accuser, is an instrument as dangerous in itself as the resultant loss of Lilienthal...
...live with himself. I have to spend the rest of my life with Harold Ickes and I could no longer, much as I regret it, retain my self-respect and stay in the Cabinet of President Truman." Mr. Truman said that Ickes would not dare to impugn the integrity of the President. "I would dare to dispute the integrity of the President," Ickes retorted, "on any occasion that my country's welfare demanded it." At week's end it was over. Until Mr. Truman appointed a new Secretary (a matter already of much speculation), Ickes' assistant, Oscar...
...American Legion's assertion that his speech would transgress on the sanctity of Armistice Day, Bridges exploded: "I have get larger and more threatening enemies than those people. Moreover, I was in the last war before them and stayed in it longer. It is a serious thing to impugn a person's patriotism unless you've got the facts to support the charge...
...procedure. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was for a bill introduced in the last Congress to set up a separate court budget. Then he reconsidered, quashed the measure. What gave him pause was the awful thought that a comptroller appointed by him might some day turn crook and thus impugn the Supreme Court itself...
...Chinese magazine published at 50 Peking Road, Shanghai. The second emanates from the so-called "World Peace Movement," allegedly located at 108 Park Row, New York City. I have been informed that efforts to get in touch with this organization have failed. These facts, ot course, do not necessarily impugn the authenticity of the document; they merely indicate that certain groups are engaged in circulating it as widely as possible...