Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where's the Goat? In Washington, people got little aid from their representatives. Convinced that gas rationing was misunderstood and unpopular, Senators and Representatives got in tune, lashed out against it. But they had no single goat. Whom were they to blame? Price Boss Leon Henderson? Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes? Donald Nelson...
...committee boiling like so many kettles. The committee sent for Mr. Morgenthau. Before a secret session, he listened to a two-hour tongue-lashing as vigorous as it was profane. What purpled the committee's collective face was that Henry Morgenthau seemed to be shoving the blame for heavy taxes on it. Last to leave the meeting were Chairman Robert L. Doughton and Mr. Morgenthau. Few minutes later they handed reporters a sweet understatement: An informal conference. . . . The Secretary's remarks did not reflect on the committee. . . . Harmonious cooperation will continue. What had really happened was that...
...wheat shortage threatened a bread famine by midsummer, but a 7,000-ton shipment from Canada brought some relief. Worse still, there's devilish little tea-and all for a war the Government will hardly admit exists. Only bright spot in the deepening gloom: you can always blame the British...
...Hitler is the one I blame...
Surprised Boss. Mr. Lincoln told the Congressmen that his bonus system had surpassed even his own wildest dreams. When they heckled him, he said "I don't blame you. In 1933, if you had told me that I would be paying bonuses of 100% of the salaries and still reducing the costs, I wouldn't have believed you either." To committee counsel Edmund Toland's contention that these bonuses (plus a $1,000,000 trust fund established to retire extra wartime workers) had milked the Government out of over $4,000,000 in taxes from...