Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the events leading up to the War but they separated and Professor Fay published his volume, The Origins of the World War two years ago. The two works are similar in many ways but they differ on the fundamental question as to where to lay the blame for the final cause of the outbreak of 1914. Professor Schmidt puts the onus on Germany whereas she is exonerated by Professor...
...also said: "Whose depression is this? If, as has been said, a fundamental cause of it is greed, who are they that did not add their part to the picture? This is a democracy of blame as well as opportunity. We were all in it-flapper, financier, newspaper man and manufacturers, laborers and politicians. It is true that its evil effects do not fall on all equally but the evil effects have been pretty widely distributed nevertheless. Fixing the blame is the occupation of the people who have lost their nerve. Finding the causes and planning the future...
...fatal airplane accidents are due directly to human failure. We lament fatal accidents and condole grieving relatives: but we also point out that these are avoidable. Proper training, sane flying, and a bit of reflection will obviate most of these accidents: also due consideration will not always lay the blame on aviation as a dangerous pastime not to be indulged in by college undergraduates. The Dartmouth
Banditry, which seemed to crouch quiet like a startled beast after Nicaragua's earthquake (TIME, April 13), sprang again last week. Possibly the No. 1 bandit, General Augusto Sandino, who had voluntarily announced suspension of hostilities, was not to blame. But on Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...
...British dirigible R-101 crashed in France and killed 48 occupants because of leaking gas and bad weather. That fact, which everyone already knew, was virtually the sum total of the long-awaited report of the court of inquiry, delivered last week in London. The investigators fixed no blame upon Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, the Secretary of State for Air (killed in the crash) who was said to have hastened the start of the flight to India to precede the opening of the Imperial Conference. But they gingerly admitted that the inadequately tested ship ''would not have started...