Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several carloads of machine guns were shipped from Italy into disarmed Hungary (TIME, March 5). So milk-and-watery was the Council's decision that it omits mention of the source of the arms, records uncertainty as to their destination, exonerates the Hungarian Customs Service of all "conscious blame," and yet declares that there has been "if not a practical at least a technical violation of the Treaty of Trianon...
There is no need to blame there papers unduly. Even the most honest of citizens is not tempted by having to leave alone the unguarded and unlocked wealth of, say, the Federal Treasury. Told that the University had news on Monday, it is not strange that Boston's energetic papers should make some effort to beat their rivals. Not only does the Bulletin not get its "even break," but the placid life of Boston journalism is destroyed. And more serious than this, the University, though not, of course, to blame for the questionable conduct of the Traveler, American, and Transcript...
...Most Catholic Majesty is thought to agree with Dictator Primo de Rivera that none of the four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...
...residents of Philadelphia who live near R. W. Graham were probably startled by two screams in quick succession when he read his copy of TIME, April 23. And I can scarcely blame him! He is probably not the only one of your readers who is a little weary of the phrase which invariably accompanies any mention of the name of Senator Heflin...
...which alert Prime Minister Bruce received blame & praise, last week, was to sell for a total of ?1,900,000 seven great ships which cost some ?7,500,000 when they were bought some five years ago by the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister's defense was that the ships have been operated by the Commonwealth at a consistent loss of some ?600,000 per year. In his opinion that loss should be stopped. But the Laborites want Australian jobs on Australian ships for Australians. Therefore in Sydney, last week, labor union leaders threatened ominously to "blacklist and boycott...