Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate to blame the Sit-Down on employers' defiance of his National Labor Relations Act, thus implying that it was up to the Supreme Court to resolve the Labor crisis by a decision on the Act. Not one of the Senate's Sit-Down critics had risen to his challenge...
Pius XI is presumably aware that, in considering the state of the Catholic Church in Mexico and Spain, not only liberal Protestants but many liberal Catholics are disinclined to blame it all on the "Reds." Last month the Catholic World, published by the Paulist Fathers, took a different line from most of the U. S. Catholic press regarding Spain: "Was the religion of the people of Madrid so superficial and their intelligence so benighted that a half-hundred aliens from the North could come down with a few pocketfuls of rubles and a supply of Marxian pamphlets and win over...
...even spend money in Vienna. Yesterday he went shopping for jewelry all day, pawed over priceless things for hours, then made his only purchase at a hardware store-a 60? flashlight, because the night before the electric lights at the Castle went out. Still an Austrian should not blame him-think of all he lost, or was cheated of in England...
...Blame for the murder of an eminent staff doctor of an impeccable mental hospital is not so easily put on an insane inmate when police learn that the victim was unloved by all of his associates...
...anything goes wrong at the Coronation, to blame will be the young Duke of Norfolk, who is "officially responsible." But so much of the ceremony is performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury that any vital mistake will just about have to be made by this Primate of All England. Last week the possibility that motion pictures, the first ever to be taken of a Coronation ceremony in the Abbey, may afford proof of a slip was masterfully dealt with in London. The five cinema firms involved were called on the carpet, forced to promise they will release not a single...