Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred from one side of the road to the other, nothing very catastrophic ever takes place, unless Yard Cops or Cambridge police loose their heads and provoke the mob. This is just what happened Monday night, and this time the onus of the blame must go to the blue-coated minions of the officious Cambridge Police Force...
Captain Doughty knew enough not to blame the gods for the Hestia's bad luck...
While Sit-Down critics throughout the land observed with ill-concealed satisfaction that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor Earle started an investigation, cried: "The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the Commonwealth. The blame lies directly on the sheriff of the county. . . . The State police will not be used to suppress union labor...
Meeting in Manhattan, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals had unanimously set aside the convictions of both Warms and Abbott, placed the blame for the ship's unsafe condition wholly upon the Ward Line and deceased Captain Willmott. Censuring the judge who sentenced Warms, the Court held that the acting captain "had maintained the best tradition of the sea by staying on his vessel until the bridge had burned under him." For Abbott's conduct the Court had no commendation, but charitably held that his "futile" behavior was due to smoke-sickness, that in any case...
Senator Robinson admitted that he disapproved of the Sit-Down. considered it illegal. So did other Senators who sprang up to object that the amendment was badly phrased and unjustly applied to coal miners, to blame the Sit-Down on employers' anti-union tactics. But Senator Johnson roared: "We do a great disservice to this Nation when in this body, gentlemen debate the Sit-Down strike and say it is unlawful but-but-but, and then begin to give fanciful reasons for its existence...