Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earmarked $146,000,000 for the Government itself to tear down slums in 33 cities, build places fit to live in. Of a total of 39 projects, not a spadeful of earth has been broken. Only in eight cases have steps been taken to acquire the ground. To blame: greedy landowners, hostile landlords, pettifogging politicians...
...They sought three other suspects-a mysterious young girl known as Marie Vjoudroch whose duty was to carry suitcases of small arms to the assassins, and two men. All Europe exploded in a few days of mutual recrimination. Because the murder weapons were German made. French police tried to blame the Nazis. Jugoslav crowds hurled insults at Italian consulates. Orthodox Serbians pelted Roman Catholic churches with stones, then switched their spleen to Hungary which had given shelter to Ustashi. A dozen chancelleries grew worried. Press attacks suddenly ceased. Jugoslavia, too. was calm. It might be the heavy silence before...
Turning from manners to voices, Dean Gildersleeve declared: "Barnard is going to give you a chance to improve your voice. They say that American women's voices are notoriously bad. It's not the climate that is to blame. It's something we have just drifted into...
...that and other aspects of the New Deal. "The New Deal may not be all right, but certainly it is not all wrong," he remarked diplomatically. But: "Today no business is willing to spend a dollar except for immediate requirements. Those of us in the steel business cannot blame our customers, for we feel the same way ourselves." His reasons: 1) fear for the profit system, 2) the Securities Act, 3) labor unrest, and 4) "I want to know what the Government is going to do with my dollar...
...Germany and preventing similar outbursts in other countries, a lively session is expected. The speakers will enlarge upon the ideals set forth by Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government in his recent address to the Society on "Experiments in Government," in which he laid much of the blame for the present state of affairs on a sanguine youth and a disappointed and disillusioned older generation...