Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over British trade routes outside the war area, thus freeing the British ships for more pressing service. John Bull, however, as anxious not to lose his trade to America as he is not to lose his land to Hitler, has been singularly obstinate in retaining these routes. All the blame for poor organization of lend-lease aid does not lie on this side of the ocean...
...blame? United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis and Northern operators had agreed on a new wage scale: $7 a day (up from $6). This caused neither of them any pain, for the union got a pay rise and it cost the Northern operators nothing, since under the Guffey Coal Act their increased labor cost would be passed along to the public as part of the Government-fixed price of coal...
...Mediation Board panel (Davis, C.I.O.'s Clinton Golden, Standard Oil's Walter Teagle), convinced that the President's proposal was fair, put the blame for the breakdown squarely on the Southern operators. In their final report board members declared...
...propose to give an opinion on the wisdom of the war declaration. I do, however, believe that the matter of strikes, etc., is a serious one, and an unfortunate reflection upon this country. If the unions are to blame, national pressure should be brought to bear upon them. If, on the other hand, it is the employers who are the cause of the trouble, it would be well for them to examine the social trends of the present emergency, particularly as evident in England. They will be able to make their own way much more easily if they anticipate...
...stormed into the Chamber through broken doors and smashed the Deputies' desks. The mob objected to Elie Lescot not only as Stenio Vincent's stooge but as too good a friend of the neighboring Dominican Republic's Boss Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, whom most Haitians blame for the border massacre of 1937 (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). The mob was ill-advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would like to take President-elect Lescot's place in Washington, leaving the new President...