Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frustrated people usually blame for their failures not their leaders or foreigners but themselves. Results: ruthless competition for individual advancement, much individual violence, escape in movies and pulp literature...
...told him to blame "our system of government" for his plight...
Hollywood often wastes superb treatment on worthless themes, sometimes miserably botches good themes. Boy Slaves and ". . . one-third of a nation" are likely to discourage Hollywood from tackling like matters, for if these pictures are financial failures, producers will blame it on the material rather than their methods...
...nation is so palpably lacking in minorities on which to blame its troubles as Mexico. But because some people think that Mexico has yet to bring an effective Government and a sense-making economy out of its 28-year-old "Revolution," because it proclaims itself a proletarian State, harbors Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and at the same time barters oil expropriated from the democracies with Germany and Italy, thoughtful observers have picked it as a place where anything might happen. Last week something unique on the American continent...
With most of Europe convinced that the fall of Barcelona was not the end of the trouble but perhaps the real beginning, war-scare was doubtless primarily to blame for the break. Brokers reported heavy liquidation from abroad. Acute weakness in foreign dollar issues led bond prices down. The Dutch guilder was weak. And, as always when Europe has the jitters, the heavy flow of gold to the U. S. quickened. In one day last week London arranged to ship...