Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition, began a series of articles for a newspaper syndicate led by the Wet New York Times. After eight years' experience, she prepared to say whether Prohibition was enforceable, whether it could be made popular, who was to blame for its nonenforcement et al. Excerpts...
Then came the attempted uprising. No one in the Maniu government, however, dared blame the Bratianu "Liberals" openly. Elected scapegoat was a little-known artillery colonel, one August Stojka. Though Bucharest newspapers dared print no comment on the uprising, its cause or effect, the following effusion was issued by Minister of the Interior Vaida-Voevod...
...agents logically came under suspicion first. A Grand Jury was asked to fix the blame. Nor did the government consider the owners of the lost liquor, the holders of the warehouse certificates, altogether blameless. Many of them were supposed to be onetime saloon keepers who had not wholly lost interest in liquor sales...
Abraham Goldberg of the Bronx, N. Y., added that the blame was not only Yevseksia's since if the Soviet Government did not approve of the persecution nobody would dare persecute. A resolution of ''protest and condemnation" was sent to President Hoover and Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations committee...
...Irvin Cobb-bless his ugly old frontispiece-not only gave us many a laugh with his classical Operation Book but he showed us the practical side of humor by making an operation pay its way. . . . But if mine's not humorous, why, don't blame me. It's hard to be funny when you know the check will only pass through your hands...