Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indicated that Naval Tomcat Osumi demanded abrogation of the naval treaties at once by Japan, while Diplomatic Tomcat Hirota spat that it would be better to face the Great Powers with impossible demands and lead them into rejection of Japan's scheme, for which they must then take the blame...
McCormick Steamship Co. has been located at Piers 38 and 40 for years and such credit or blame as may be attached to steamship participation in the opening of Pier 38 therefore should rest on our shoulders...
Said Walter Kohler: "The blame for the actions of the mob is on the leaders and other outside agitators who provoked them to violence...
...Doumergue went before the people on the general record of his stewardship, which is undeniably good. He left up in the air the specific failure of his Cabinet to clear up the Stavisky scandal which is still in the dawdling hands of its Parliamentary Committee. Convinced that le peuple blame chiefly the Committee and not himself, Gastounet left the microphone to begin his summer vacation. Next evening as he was about to catch the sleeping car for his wife's estate near Toulouse the Stavisky scandal blew up in Committee and excited Cabinet Ministers came tearing to the station...
...engine whistled Gastounet made a lightning decision. "Tell the boys to be good!" he snapped. "This quarrel must be limited to the men involved, not their parties or the Government. I shall leave now on my vacation and should anyone act rashly they must bear the blame. Au revoir, Messieurs!" and the train chuffed off with Gastounet...