Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concluded the report: "... airplane had been operated in accordance with Air Commerce regulations; daily inspections . . . satisfactorily concluded; . . . thoroughly airworthy; ... no blame can be attached to the pilots...
...President Hoover's description of the former Danish West Indies is correct but Americans must blame themselves for the condition there. American laws have absolutely ruined St. Croix where the finest rum in the world was formerly produced. Everything stagnated after the Americans prohibited its manufacture...
...driver's seat as president, attempted to quicken Gardner's pace by abandoning fours for sixes and eights. But Gardner's sales have shrunk, its fuel reserve of cash has been drained to almost nothing, for four years it has operated at a loss. Motor men do not blame Gardner's withdrawal on poor driving so much as on the difficulty for any small producer to survive because of high production costs...
...cool but callow newshawk who grows rich by blackmailing gangsters. Disappointed in the rewards consequent upon his first scoop, the reporter offers to conceal further news of illegal enterprises if their promoters share the profits with him. When another reporter gets the story of a gangland gambling layout, gangsters blame the racketeer-reporter, perforate him. Routine exaggerations?of a hardboiled city editor, a thundering "Big Guy''?combine to make The Finger Points an unconvincing morality play...
...cannot blame the author for thus covering his tracks. The war left a world so fraught with danger and complication that any prediction as to the final outcome must be, at best, speculative and qualified. Mr. Muir has, however, given a very orderly and concise review of the situation both before and after the war. He has outlined the various forces such as Nationalism and Imperialism which rushed the world headlong into the crisis of 1914 in a clear and convincing fashion. And he has gone on to show the several trends that are present in Europe today, whether...