Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Republicans were more sympathetic to the foreign-aid program, but they reacted with resentment and suspicion to the priority which the President gave the price phase of his program. Any discussion of what to do about prices would inevitably stir up the old argument over who was to blame for the present high level of prices. Republicans said that businessmen would oppose any new controls. Said Michigan's Jesse Wolcott: "If he can lower prices without putting controls back on, he's a genius and we'll admit...
...first time he had mentioned "police state," Clark Clifford, his chief speechwriter, who was sitting behind him, had visibly stiffened. One big part of Democratic campaign strategy was sure to be an attempt to blame high prices on the Republicans, to insist that the G.O.P. had sent them sky-high by scuttling OPA. And here was the President, head of the Democratic Party, damning all controls as tools of dictatorship. It might well turn out to be the political boner of the year...
...this society, stable enough to breed 400 million men, is decomposed, then forces outside the peoples of India, not within them, must be to blame...
...When tragedy runs amok blame is universal, inextricable and irrelevant. That the horror was deeper than the ideals or ambitions of the leaders was ironically demonstrated when they tried to stop it. Mohamed Ali Jinnah urged restraint, but the killing did not cease. Gandhi fasted in Calcutta with ultimate local effect, but elsewhere the killing did not cease. When he visited their sanctuary, 30,000 groaning Moslems virtually adored him, but the killing did not cease. Nehru personally rescued two Moslem girls from a gang of Sikhs, but the killing did not cease. A conference between Nehru and Pakistan...
...repealed. This week, as prices still went up, December wheat futures at Chicago hit $3.07 and cash wheat soared to a 27-year high of $3.11. On the way, wheat dragged up the cost of many another food. President Truman last week had again tried to put all the blame on his favorite whipping boy: the grain speculators or gamblers, as he termed them (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The idea that the Government's huge exports of wheat had caused the market's rise was misinformation, said he. The U.S., he added, had always exported a third or more...