Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than the Truth. If people generally are confused about U.S. fighters, they can blame a record of overstatement, outright misstatement, and pettifogging pride, which does no credit to General Arnold, the Army, the manufacturers...
Other chapters puncture other illusions. Labor and management, Congress and citizen, all come in for their share of praise and blame. "The Illusion that We Can Win the War with Our Second Team" convincingly indicts an unconverted administrative system still crippled by peacetime policies and personnel, while "The Illusion that Britain and Russia Are the Enemy" is a summons to the abandonment of irresponsible criticism of our Allies...
...present Henderson is blocked by a determined farm group and resentful Congressmen, who blame him for the troubles of their petty-businessman constituents suffering under price ceilings and for refusing OPA patronage jobs to their politician colleagues. If Henderson remains tied to the coattails of various conflicting and overlapping government agencies, wartime prices will soon work hand in hand with inflation. What is needed to avoid this is an economic high command with unrestricted power to direct all phases of wartime living...
Hermanns placed some blame for the lack of insurrection against German domination in France upon the United States. He stated that if the United States had recognized De Gaulle, the people of France might have taken heart. "The Nazi Gestapo would not have had been able to become entrenched in time," he stated...
...question in this case at all. I am not trying to set myself up to judge whether that is right or wrong. All I know is that there is accepted segregation, and when the Hayes woman refused to abide by the rules governing her race she was entirely to blame for the consequences...