Word: undercut
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Colonel's new efforts to prove that his isolationist heart is in the right place. He enlisted noisily in the "Smokes for Yanks" campaign, thereby inspiring Col. Frank Knox's Daily News to its best cartoon of the year. Few days later the Colonel sought to undercut a more serious criticism. In a long letter to the London Daily Sketch's Lord Kemsley "on America's place in world affairs" McCormick wrote: "If it were necessary, and I write this after mature consideration, I believe that many Americans would volunteer to aid you in arms...
...doing so, Franklin Roosevelt undercut one of his most loyal friends and party advisers: Boss Edward J. Flynn, Jim Farley's successor as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was Boss Flynn who helped pick Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer as a likely candidate to run against Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, July 28). Said a White House correspondent: "Mr. President, there have been reports . . . that Mr. Flynn would resign if you supported Mayor LaGuardia." The President's smile vanished. He looked hard at the reporter. Then he answered curtly that he did not think...
...main purpose of Il Mondo was to undercut the biggest two Italian dailies of the U.S., Il Progresso Italo-Americana and Correire d'America, owned by New York sand and gravel Tycoon Generoso Pope. For Publisher Pope has often been accused of hobnobbing with Fascist bigshots, of employing Fascists on his editorial staffs, of printing pro-American editorials in English and pro-Mussolini editorials in Italian...
...signing away their right to strike union chiefs argued that they were surrendering the only weapon they had. How could they be sure that management would not try to undercut their membership during the two years of the contract? How could they be sure that A.F. of L., strong among shipworkers on the West Coast, would not begin sniping at C.I.O. in Kearny? They demanded a union shop...
...seeming effort to undercut the effect of these charges, the Nazis countered with the proud assertion that a new Catholic prayer book for the first time includes special war prayers, including one for "victory in the German struggle for liberty." But Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry slipped up, missed the obvious inference-that for the 19 months of World War II Germany's Catholics have been praying for peace, not for victory...