Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public, the same public that condemns the police and all law-breakers in one breath. While the public is on the subject of crime, it should examine the police, of course. After that why not examine other things, including itself? This would go far in determining the blame for America's permanent crime wave...
...corruption, has terminated in complete and utter chaos. Indifference on the part of class officers, carelessness or willful distortion of truth on the part of poll-watchers and count-takers, short-sightedness on the part of the election committee,--all will come in for a share of the blame. But no individual culprits may be named; the atmosphere of crass negligence which overlies the whole affair obscures the cause of the injustice which has been wrought...
...only this," comments Webb, "but the game has not improved as a sport wherein fundamentals have held their own against 'breaks' and outright luck, and it is quite natural that the forward pass should stand the blame...
...disillusioned world which realizes that whether diplomacy or democracy is to blame, the fact remains that Point One is irretrievably lost, and that international faith has swung back to the old policy of jealously guarded silence...
There is much to investigate, no doubt, and much blame to be placed. But it is emphasizing bygones that the optimist objects to. He would have the country adopt a hopeful attitude towards the existing evils, a realization that we want past offenders done away with primarily because through that attitude an opportunity will be given for corrupt organizations to reform themselves. After all the past is not of primary interest except as it affects the future. The real importance of investigating the corruption in the Shipping Board is that it will enable us to put our shipping...