Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some extent, OPA was bearing some of the blame that belonged to the War Food Administration, which sets the food policies for OPA to carry out. Last spring and summer, sometimes against OPA's advice, WFA's kewpie-faced, easygoing Marvin Jones cheerily experimented with taking some meats off the ration lists.* Sharing Washington's war optimism, through OPA he also ordered wholesalers and retailers to reduce sharply their stores of canned goods, to get ready for quick handling of surpluses in case the European war ended suddenly. Result: with so many foods moving point-free...
Then Protestants rubbed Catholic Mexico's sorest spot-history. In newspaper advertisements, they again laid the blame for the French invasion of Mexico (1864) at Church doors. In mid-November Archbishop Martínez pastoral letter blazed at "the perfect organization and powerful financial resources" of Protestant sects. Martinez was further quoted in an interview: "If Catholics believe that a powerful boycott might be one of the effective remedies [for Protestant activity], certainly they should...
...threatened filibuster. The Senate hastily confirmed Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' team, and went home. But New Deal Congressmen still had reservations about three, in particular, of the six appointees: William L. Clayton, whom they consider a "cartelist"; Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, whom they partly blame for the Darlan policy in 1942; veteran Diplomat James Dunn, whom they regard as the villain of the U.S. appeasement policy toward Franco...
...majority of the U.S. does not blame the German people for wartime atrocities that Germany has committed. So reported the University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center last week. Of those polled, only 38% believe that both the German people and the Nazi leaders are guilty; 58% blame Nazi leaders alone...
...Blame? General Marshall's press chief, Major General Alexander D. Surles, maintains fairly close liaison from Washington with Allen, Diller, all other public relations officers in the field. But theater PROs get their orders from theater commanders, each of whom is boss in his own bailiwick. Washington would no more think of releasing anything which General Eisenhower had put a block on, or of pulling down anything which General MacArthur had put a balloon to, than it would think of rewriting the Ten Commandments...