Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, addressing the New York legislature at almost the same time that the President was addressing Congress, dropped his policy of not discussing national issues. He charged that the full blame for inflation lies with the Administration. He also dropped the pretense that he is not an avowed candidate. To a group of G.O.P. legislators, he confided that the same trio which ran his 1944 campaign (Herbert Brownell Jr., Russel Sprague and Ed Jaeckle) would also handle "whatever interests I have nationally" in 1948, i.e., they would be lining up delegates from...
They soon began to. "You invited me here," she shouted, "and I'm staying." Then she began to tell them a thing or two. The school board was corrupt and inefficient, she said, and who was to blame? Well, it was a labor union bloc that ran it. Unionmen were "damn fools," she said, to support such a board. Why, only one member of the bloc was actually a union member...
Said Gromyko: "This is one thing you cannot blame on the Soviet Union." He meant the snow. More effectively than the veto, the Great Snow paralyzed...
Speculators, cried President Truman angrily, were to blame for much of the increase in food costs. But it was the Government's buying-in-a-bunch rather than spreading it out that helped make speculation a sure thing. So the U.S. had its first $2.95 a bushel cash corn in its history; its first $3 cash wheat in 27 years. When the Government temporarily stepped out of the market toward year's end, with most of the grain it needed by mid-1948 already bought, the price of May wheat futures dropped...
...Money. So the U.S. paid for its first try at bailing out the world with higher prices all around. Everyone, as expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...