Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July, prices once more had begun a slow rise, although volume of trading was unbelievably thin. It was actually the beginning of Depression II, but almost to a man the brokerage community believed what Charles Gay put into his Exchange report-that too strict regulation by SEC was to blame. Wrote President Gay in his usual mild way: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what might be termed sporadic evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. . . ." Same week that this tempered but widely publicized kick issued from the Exchange...
...form of the reply was typical-the Exchange offered to publish a letter to Douglas promising to reorganize and admitting that SEC was not to blame for the crash. No less than 15 drafts of this letter were composed, each so phrased that Douglas knew it was just one more runaround. Finally, in mid-November, he blew up, snapped: "The negotiations are off." "I suppose you'll go ahead with your own program?" asked the Exchange's representative...
...South more than Sherman ever did, that a northern economic occupation is now ending just as its military occupation once ended. From northerners, he asks only forbearance: Cato the Elder destroyed Carthage, he says, and planted it with salt, but he did not afterwards ride through Carthage and blame its poverty on the Carthaginians...
...blame was placed on Colonel Beltran or his men for the retreat from what had been called an impregnable position. Cause of the retreat was lack of ammunition; blame for the scarcity was laid to the heretofore obliging Republic of France. From its start the course of the Spanish Civil War has been largely decided in European capitals far removed from hostilities. With France apparently no longer a reliable friend, the diplomatic front looked black for Leftist Spain last week...
...labor activity had had nothing to do with their dismissal, was "happy to report its opinion that there was no departure whatsoever from Harvard's tradition of tolerance and of untrammeled scientific inquiry." But the committee said the dismissals were a mistake, held President Conant partly to blame for a "misunderstanding." Dr. Conant had asked the economics department to recommend two of its seven instructors for promotion. The department, unaware that this meant the dismissal of the other five, chose two more experienced members, but considered Drs. Walsh and Sweezy so promising that it asked for a three-year...