Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different voices on the radio and I couldn't make out any of them." This became the foundation for a number of bitter attacks on the Bureau of Air Commerce, operators of the radio beam system. Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate Air Safety Committee, put the whole blame for recent crashes on the Bureau, demanded that it be reorganized, asked for $10,000,000 to improve safety. Other outsiders, such as Columnist Hugh Johnson, screamed violent accusations, suggested equally extravagant remedies. The Weather Bureau added 100 new stations. The Bureau of Air Commerce began an investigation, denied...
...Bureau's defense flocked most of the airlines. Said one airline executive: "After all, we've got to fly the planes. You can't blame a lighthouse if you sink your ship in a hurricane," Said Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, War ace and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, which has never lost a passenger: "Conditions wouldn't be improved by Government control-they wouldn't be as good as they...
...Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin American civil wars. "For every soldier killed in battle in Spain's civil war, three persons-men, women and children -have been murdered behind the lines." declared Mr. Ziffren, making clear that Spaniards on both sides share equal blame as wholesale murderers...
...month in opium license taxes go to the Chief of the Military Affairs Commission of the Nanking Government. Last week famed Chiang Kaishek, Dictator of China, resigned as Chief of the Military Affairs Commission, also resigned his numerous other Government offices, including that of Premier. Heaping blame of all sorts upon himself, the Dictator carried on until Chinese began to wonder if he really did mean not to be Premier any more. They had supposed he was only going through motions of Chinese politeness, resigning his offices and accepting "blame" because he had been kidnapped by one of his subordinates...
With much ostentation, the Young Marshal was taken to court by a military escort which behaved as though guarding his life rather than attempting to prevent his escape, and in the screwiest trial yet staged outside Soviet Russia he loudly took entire blame for everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights...