Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present antivenereal disease campaign of the several States came from the clearing houses to which such statistics should go -the U. S. Public Health Service and the American Social Hygiene Association. If the health statistics of any State have been reported inadequately, its health officers are to blame, not the U.S.P.H.S., the A.S.H.A., or TIME...
...attacks. When the Bureau investigated crashes, he was accused of whitewashing his subordinates. When he devoted time to developing a "$700 plane" for private flyers, airlines screamed that he was neglecting them. When Bureau airway aids became outdated because the Government cut Bureau funds 40%, Gene Vidal got the blame. When Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in a crash. Senator Copeland's investigating committee recommended Gene Vidal's resignation, commented: "He is an amiable gentleman. He has a good background. Our fear is that he is too amiable, that he is lacking in iron, positiveness and determination. . . ." Lately...
Said Senator Copeland: "I am sorry to see him go. ... Of course I scolded him . . . but he wasn't to blame. . . . It was the system that was wrong, not Mr. Vidal. He was director on paper. Actually, he had no authority. Secretary of Commerce Roper had a setup in which three men had collateral authority. One was Mr. Vidal. The other two were Rex Martin and Carroll Cone, assistant directors...
Hitherto French courts have held that such an exemplary mistress, whether or not her master was also married, had a juridical right to share modestly with the relatives of her man in whatever is collected from the person to blame for the accident which killed him. Mistresses mourned, wives exulted in France this week for the Highest Tribunal, after hearing in one day three mistresses try to prove themselves admirable, handed down the blanket decision that henceforth any woman upon the sudden death by accident of her man shall "have right to damages only if united to the victim...
...latest Five-Year Plan is especially behind schedule in Heavy Industry. Last week J. Stalin made the now necessarily friendly move of having Buyer-Planner Mezhlauk appointed to replace the late Grigoriy Konstantinovich Orclzhonikidze, as Commissar for Heavy Industry. Russia's planners and Russia's performers, inevitably, blame each other for Five-Year Plan setbacks and it is no bed of roses in which long-jawed Mezhlauk was planted...