Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole business highly satisfying. Housewives complained vociferously, but brought home overpriced hamburger as proudly as if they had the Hope Diamond tied up in a pickle carton. There were other millions who got mad, concluded 1) that they were living in an immoral age; 2) that somebody was to blame; and 3) that they were rapidly going broke. But if they got ugly with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker they ended up eating eggplant. To get the goods you had to smile, smile, smile...
Housing programs, wage control, price control, meat control-all of them just seemed to make living more difficult. People were beginning to feel that somebody was to blame-and beginning to feel that they knew who it was: the Democrats. The Democrats had been running things for 14 years. Wasn't it about time for a change...
...Government was not wholly to blame, but the Government was responsible. There were plenty of cattle around -over 40 million beef cattle on ranges and farms, by conservative estimate. In 1939 there were only 30 million, and everyone who could afford it then had all the meat he could eat. Now producers were hanging on to their cattle in hopes of getting a better price. But the people did not really blame the producers. It was the Government, which had tried to replace the good old profit system with something else...
...Wholly Wrong." An hour later Harry Truman took his stand. To his press conference, he said calmly: "In July and August when there was no price control on meat, meat was abundant. Now there is price control and meat is short. It is natural, therefore, for the people to blame the shortage on price control. This line of reasoning is wholly wrong...
Wisconsin. Dark, vigorous Republican Joseph R. McCarthy (TIME, Aug. 26) was making the most of his high talent for gladhanding and his opportunity to blame strikes, price muddles and every other postwar difficulty on the Democratic Party. Labor seemed apathetic to Democrat Howard J. McMurray, and Progressives were making little noise in his behalf. The odds heavily favored McCarthy...