Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Direct Action Day," proclaimed by Moslem League Boss Mohamed Ali Jinnah, touched off the disaster. But much blame for what actually happened was shifted to Huseyn Shabad Suhrawardy, head of the Bengal provincial government. Chief Minister Suhrawardy, 52, is a slick, Oxford-educated Moslem who has a bad reputation for black-marketeering in his hunger-ridden province. Instead of warning against violence on "Direct Action Day," Suhrawardy proclaimed a holiday in Bengal, which had the effect of putting his followers on the streets; and he threatened Bengal's secession from India if the Moslems were not placated...
Only the Government was to blame. In 1942, when the Allied larder began to run low, the Administration, backed by Congress, decided to encourage more food production by guaranteeing 90% of parity prices to growers of potatoes and other agricultural commodities. To make sure the offer would be taken, Congress extended the guarantee until two years after the "termination of hostilities...
Confused Policy. Partly to blame for this was the U.S. Government itself; so far it has bungled its comparatively new job as foreign agent for the airlines. As it now stands U.S. air policy is set and controlled by five separate, sometimes conflicting agencies-the CAB, the U.S. Maritime Commission, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Department of State. Most recent sample of the boners that result: CAB last week blandly certified South Atlantic routes via Brazil to Pan American Airways, Inc. while the State Department was still pressing an uphill fight in Rio de Janeiro...
LaGuardia was not to blame for UNRRA's end; that had been scheduled months ago. Nor was he responsible for the lack of planning by other agencies. Last week, in fact, he made a moving plea on behalf of those who live in the "roofless house...
Tasty Schools. By treaty the U.S. was to blame. There were no schools at all for 14,000 out of 20,000 school-age Navajos. But the nomadic Navajos were also at fault: they took their children with them to tend sheep flocks. To round up students from a 50-mile radius, the day schools depended on buses. But poor roads, flash floods and wartime breakdowns held up the buses. Of 50 schools, 20 were closed during World War II. Chee says: "The schools tasted good. We want more...