Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Progress. Pondering U. S. defense accomplishments and future plans. 24.2% of the businessmen decided that they were as effective as could reasonably be expected, 51.9% thought they were only moderately effective, 21.6% were sure that they were comparatively ineffective. Blame for this state of affairs was put mainly on the Government...
...week's end had gone to Riom to face trial. Shocking to Frenchmen who have for years been taxed to the eyes for armaments was the lack of planes when war broke loose. In returning from the U. S., M. La Chambre either believed he could shift the blame on his predecessors or was making a gallant gesture...
...combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...
...Blum. All were questioned by Prosecutor Gaston Cassagnau for hours every day, as was the prosecution's chief witness, appeaser and onetime Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. Whether or not the Riom defendants were found guilty of starting the war, the question was: Could they be saddled with the blame for it before the Germans pinned it on all Frenchmen...
Whose Fault? Nearly everybody blamed Congress, which still fiddled with conscription, carped at voting the second half of the $11,000,000,000, held up legislation vital in safeguarding and stimulating defense production. Army and Navy officials whose testimony was published last week did indeed put most of the blame on Congress. They also distributed a little elsewhere, by inference put some on themselves...