Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corp. (formerly Federal). Rudolph Spreckels continued to live and act in the manner which made Spreckels synonymous in the West with Wealth and Prestige. First blow to the Spreckels pride must have been the collapse of Kolster Radio (1930), of which Rudolph Spreckels was board chairman. Although absolved of blame, Mr. Spreckels had shown that his potent sugar magic was not applicable to radio...
...Chief blame for race troubles in Hawaii was placed by Admiral William Veazie Pratt on the "beach boys"?half-castes hired to instruct tourists in swimming and surfboard riding. These brown bucks, it was explained, do not understand the easy familiarity between the sexes sanctioned in the Occident. They mistake a white woman's smiling friendliness for an invitation to license. According to Admiral Pratt, the laxity with respect to sex crimes in Hawaii is due "just to the nature of things...
...victory." concluded Haranguer Hitler. "Comrades, we march into 1932 as fighters so that we may leave it as victors! . . . Long live our ever beloved German people! . . . On to victory like knights without fear or blame we will charge?through Hell, Death and Damna-tion...
...Sportsmanship Brotherhood was in formed by John T. MacGovern. co author of Carnegie Bulletin No. 23, excoriating professionalism in college football, that "the scandalous conduct of the spectators has done more to break down the best traditions of American athletics than any subsidizing . . . proselytizing. . . ." He laid the blame for over emphasis on "cigar-store sports or barber shop administrators. . . ." President Henry M. Wriston of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.. told the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges that "a vicious relationship between sports and profits has developed through the years." He advocated abolition of collegiate "conferences." "scouting," high...
...whole and apply to him any standards worthy of the name, that is to be deplored in a post-war period when standards are conspicuous by their absence. And for this dissociation, this tacit distortion of the true state of affairs, the American press must bear much of the blame...