Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collapse was the newspapers which got together and bellowed "Revolution!" at the top of their lungs. John Francis Neylan, chief Hearst counsel, was recalled from Hawaii to direct the publishers' campaign against the general strike, arouse public opinion. Editorials harped on the idea that Communists were to blame for the city's plight, that radicals were directing the strike, that Labor must purge itself of such Red leadership before there could be any arbitration or settlement. The publishers got little or no support from Washington for their tubthumping. When General Johnson arrived in San Francisco, he was taken...
...this prairie, that such a day as this would come. . . . For 38 years I paid my taxes on time, then, three years ago, I couldn't meet my taxes. A man's first duty is to his family. I have nine children. I don't blame you for seeking help...
...could blame Glen Luther Martin of Baltimore for beaming with pride last week. Fortnight ago the War Department announced that ten Martin bombers would take off from Washington, D. C. the Navy Department announced that twelve Martin patrol seaplanes would also take oil this month for a 7,700-mi. flight up the coast from San Diego, Calif, to Dutch Harbor. Alaska, and return. Simultaneously the War Department awarded proud Mr. Martin a $3,195,450 contract to build for the Army Air Corps 81 more of his famed "YB" bombers-most formidable weapon yet developed for aerial defense...
...worth of false entries in the books of his now closed Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., of misapplying $600,000 in assets. On the stand Defendant Harriman, much improved physically and mentally since his half-mad nights from a sanatorium last year, craftily tried to shift the blame to his co-defendant and onetime executive vice president, Albert Murray Austin. The jury acquitted Austin on all counts...
...laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright put it, "You laid out the course, so if anything happens you have only yourself to blame." The Army bought the flimsy plane, appropriated $150 for maintenance, and in 90 minutes the Wrights made "Benny" Foulois the Army's No. 1 pilot. First year's repair bills amounted to $450 of which $300 came out of Pilot Foulois' meager wages. Steadily "Benny" Foulois rose with...