Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers are not solely to blame. Members of the House and Senate know well that the lobby of the agricultural aristocrats is small, but they have nevertheless followed the parity line with the blind allegiance of a Storm Trooper to Mein Kampf. Congress has turned over the job of drafting policy to a group of professional lobbyists. If the bill passes the Senate as speedily as it went through the House of Representatives, the President can only veto it and issue the necessary decrees to control prices under his powers as Commander in Chief...
This week Franklin Roosevelt attacked the problem of inflation. And as on March 4, 1933 he attacked Depression by excoriating "the money-changers in the temple," so on Sept. 7, 1942 he attacked Depression's opposite by putting the blame on the lawmakers in the Capitol...
Many Congressmen felt that the greeting might as well have been addressed to them. Were they really to blame? Certainly in part: they had yielded to the farm bloc on farm prices, had dallied since February on taxes...
...only the staunchest Administration followers in Congress were willing to take all the blame lying down. The President had never presented a real, urgent price bill to his Congress. The bill that became law last January-containing the 110% parity provision -had gone to Congress so full of Administration compromises with labor and farm groups as to be almost an invitation to further watering-down...
...unfamiliar with the regulations which the Military Science Department has laid down for those students who were fortunate enough to be admitted to the course. I choose to think that the blame does not lie with the officers in charge, but rather with the students themselves. I refer to the actions of a number of the Mil Sci men, whose respect for the United States Army and for the uniform of the Army is so small as to lead them to don those same uniforms, issued to them for drill purposes only, on weekend evenings for the sole purpose...