Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have come to the same conclusion about the marble claims as the commission. But his main job was to hand out to reporters a statement containing his own formula for dealing with Mr. Willkie and ending TVA's war with the private utilities. In it, after dexterously shifting blame for the trouble to litigation instituted by the utilitymen themselves, he proposed that the TVA should negotiate for the purchase of private power facilities on behalf of 400 communities in the TVA area. To this Mr. Willkie, who last year dramatically begged the Government to buy his properties instead...
...public hearings before the Board last week blame for the State of Oklahoma's rolls appeared to rest on: 1) political subordinates, 2) Indians, 3) the possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were...
...previous letter columns: 1) no irrelevant personal pleadings were countenanced, 2) but no admissible and generally interesting point was left unanswered by the editors. TIME considered (and considers) its Letters Department its department of public relations, ready to right wrongs done its readers or itself, to deal with blame and praise alike...
...condemnation from Congress, the White House and the press would have been violent and immediate. Yet when Ohio's Robert Johns Bulkley introduced just such a bill in the Senate last week, the reaction was one of tolerant understanding. Neither the President nor any member of Congress could blame Bob Bulkley, for two of his proposed roads would run through Ohio, and on August 9 Ohio Democrats will choose between Robert Bulkley and George White, who is remembered by Ohioans as a great road-building Governor, as their candidate for the U. S. Senate...
...Speakers at the annual session of the National Association of Manufacturers placed the blame for the current business recession upon (1 foreign wars, 2 high tariffs, 3 lack of raw materials for industry, 4 lack of available money for expansion of industry, 5 President Roosevelt and his New Deal policies...