Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimental excitement about War veterans, got his proposal adopted by a vote of 324-49 after Mr. Johnson, outraged, asked that his name be removed from the measure. Congressman Wood pointed out that under this bill a veteran, hale and hearty, could contract gout on Dec. 31, 1929, blame it on the War eleven years before, collect, under the broad presumption clause, $225 per month as compensation. His prediction was that the House measure would add from 500 million to a billion dollars per year to the U. S. cost of veteran...
Because the St. Paul lease was arranged under Democratic Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson, Republican Senators tried to blame him for any wrongdoing. But it was Republican Postmaster General Will Hays who signed the first lease in 1922, Republican Postmaster General Harry Stewart New who renewed it in 1925. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown was accused of being very slack and indifferent to extirpating the alleged fraud...
...color") and Mabel Fuller, along with Annette Roberts ("a gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick received all blame. Commentators based their criticism, in essence, upon the curtain line of Act I: "The whole thing has been a mistake, a failure...
Many an "unexplained" crash of aircraft might be traced to a loosened airfoil control, a weakened cable, faulty lubrication, dirty fuel. To blame: the mechanic. A fact: mechanics are frequently youngsters. An act: last week Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, ruled: "The minimum age requirement for any class of mechanic's license is 18 years . . . the lowest we can permit while keeping in mind the highly important part the mechanic plays in the safe operation of aircraft, and the need for constant vigilance...
...that he suffered from a constitutional inhibition against speaking the truth, save on occasions when, if we except the esthetic point of view, the truth would have been better left unspoken. But I have so often found both these faults in myself, that I do not dare to blame them...