Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American's Board Chairman C. R. Smith put most of the blame fdr the slow selling issue on the public's lack of faith in the future of aviation. He angrily blamed that on pessimists in the aviation industry. Said he: "This whole job [of raising capital] has been made more difficult by some people in our business. . . . Airplane manufacturers, including companies from whom we are buying airplanes, have expressed the opinion that the airline industry . . . has 'overbought'. ... It is unfortunate that some people in this business ... do not really believe...
...long-drawn-out, embarrassed "Lichfield trials" at last produced the conviction of an officer. Before the court at Bad Nauheim, Lieut. Granville Cubage of Oklahoma City, accused of ordering "cruel and unusual" punishments on G.I. prisoners at the Lichneld Reinforcement Depot, had pleaded that higher officers were to blame. The court-martial fined him $250 and issued a reprimand. The wrist-slapping indicated that the heat was to be turned on the higher...
...tried to dissuade Jackson from his unprecedented action, but had failed. The President was hopping mad. For in the long run, even though he had appointed neither Jackson nor Black, Harry Truman's administration, as the inheritor of the New Deal, would get most of the blame for the unseemly judicial scandal...
...evenings they piled into the big Shriner auditorium to hear Harold Stassen blast U.S. Communists, Walter Reuther blame U.S. labor troubles on insufficient "consumer capacity" (i.e., too low wages). Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, Chicago's famed radical Catholic bishop, brought down the house with a savage attack on racial inequalities and congressional dawdling...
Since President-General Higinio Morínigo took over Paraguay in 1940, he has used Benítez Vera's, fascist-minded military clique for a whipping boy: it was to blame for Morínigo's failure to set up some semblance of a democracy. Finally, Benítez Vera had played the strongman act with so much authority that he had been given the boot. Now what...