Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Fields. During its bumpy, argumentative session the Senate had stopped Mississippi's bigoted Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo from taking his seat in the Senate, had finally confirmed David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft shared credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...Price Is High." Wrote one angry rice merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...
...brought a sharp expansion of profits in 1946 and through the first quarter of 1947. . . . Abnormally high earnings such as these cannot last. Many prices today are badly out of line and must be brought down. If orderly price reductions do not become more general, business must share the blame for the slump that is sure to come...
...President," he said, "I have been so horribly mangled." Maundering and maudlin, he recounted the long history of TVA and his own part in it. "Can Senators blame me for feeling hurt over the fact that the President of the United States and some of my colleagues on this side of the aisle-men whom I have known intimately, men whom I have sat next to in the Senate, one of whom...
Musical numbers for the show, which director Achenhurst asserts is "shaping up well," include "I Blame It on the Section Man," "If You're Clever. You'll Never Visit Boston," "By the Subway in the Square," and as a grand finale number, "Jubilee...