Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation over, President Roosevelt returned to the White House to find his desk littered with urgent cables from Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull in London. In them Mr. Hull-described by London newshawks as a "stricken man"-revealed that the Conference steering committee was ready to vote adjournment. Blame seemed about to fall squarely on the President. By utmost efforts Mr. Hull had barely managed to persuade the Conference steering committee to hold off until next day. What was the U. S. Delegation to do? The President pondered an answer...
...palpably absurd to blame the Press for what has been happening at London. The correspondents do not invent; they merely report. . . . What was there for the correspondents to do but set forth the case as they...
...journalists-you always are targets for propaganda and rumors. I hope you will steadily resist both at this gathering." Peevishly he lectured them on optimism v. pessimism, practically warned them that if the world lost confidence in the Conference the blame would be on them...
...organizer and executive is Col. Pellegrini, 44, seasoned naval officer, whose wife is the U. S.-born daughter of Theodore Kaschmann. Metropolitan Opera baritone of 20 years ago. But no other man calls himself, or is called, commander from the moment Italo Balbo steps upon the scene. Glory or blame will fall squarely upon the shoulders of that amazing man whose worshippers call him L'Atlantico...
...receivership but the centre of a major financial scandal. Built by James W. Stevens & family, it was largely financed by Stevens-controlled Illinois Life Insurance Co. which went to the wall as a result. And if there is any one thing beside the Depression that Chicago hotelmen can blame for their many, many woes, it was the building of this "biggest" hotel...