Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-percenters" deserve all the condemnation that is being heaped upon them. But so far I have seen no criticism of the men who paid the bribes. Are they not also to blame? Is it not indicative of the greed and grab which pervades much of our American business...
...Wilson thought that management itself was partly to blame for the union demands. It had not made its case clear to employees and it would have to do better. Said he: "For the last six months, in every plant we have, management has gone in and given [workers] the low-down facts on the business ... I think they are entitled to know. I know that if I were back at the bench working I would want to know a darned sight more than I was told. Forty-five years ago, they told me nothing...
...doctrines of the Left, with their teaching that the ordinary man can make less effort to produce and yet consume more, have, in the hands of both [the Conservative and Labor] parties, contributed to [the crisis] . . . The Labor Government, as the bearers of responsibility, are very much to blame for their stubbornness in refusing to remit anything of their plans . . . It is not enough for a self-respecting Government merely to say that its opponents would have been no better ... In Britain courage pays political dividends. Those politicians who refuse to prolong the rosy illusions . . . and tell the people soberly...
...Atlanta Constitution and 199 other papers, Columnist Westbrook Pegler paid his last respects to Margaret Mitchell, "this great historian and interpreter of a time before her time . . ." Atlantans probably shared his sentiments, but many gagged when Pegler went on to blame her for not realizing that those low-down New Dealers in Washington were as trashy as any damyankees and carpetbaggers of Gone With the Wind...
...Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split the blame between the President and her husband, who had refused to use his influence to keep Timmy out of the draft...