Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retirement to file in Massachusetts a damage suit against six of his stock-selling cronies. Claiming that the brokers had forced their way into the company in 1929 and "caused his name to be forged on papers and letters," he demanded $1,500,000 damages and complete vindication of blame for the shady stock deals. Page & Shaw has never recovered from the Dunham spree. It still operates a factory in Cambridge, but all its retail stores have been closed. Most of its candy is sold today through drug stores and specialty shops...
...Prince Edward Island, which will vote this month, remains Conservative. In Ottawa discouragement among Conservatives was so acute that within the Party there was talk that Mr. Bennett might abruptly retire and put in the field some other Conservative whom Canada's mob had not become accustomed to blame personally for everything from Depression to moths in the clothes closet...
...Whatever Auslander is, Benet is a criticaster! . . . One of those responsible for the low tone of American criticism-the substitution of praise or blame for analysis and actual taste. . . . Get right about that Benet, Van Doren crew! . . . Professional backslappers and boosters of their own kind! Look at the record and give that boy who wrote the Auslander review a big hearty kiss from...
...year-old President Jack Frye flared up with a blunt statement squarely laying blame for the crash not on TWA but on the Department of Commerce. Said he: "The real cause of the accident was that Pilot Bolton attempted to come down through a ceiling reported by the Bureau of Air Commerce observer at Kirksville as 7,000 ft. ... What he actually found was practically a zero-zero condition. . . . The accident occurred . . . solely because the favorable landing conditions reported by the observer at Kirksville did not exist...
...wrong to lay all of the blame for gross inefficiency on the former regime. In fairness it is essential to recognize the obstacles that they faced, obstacles which often precluded the possibility of successful operation...