Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury Mills, rich and rotund, continued to be the most leather-lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
Farmers were inclined to blame much of the drop on the fact that last week Secretary of Agriculture Hyde suspended the rule on grain futures trading which required that all individual trades of over 500,000 bu. be reported. Shortsellers, claimed farmers, were thus given free rein. But in grain circles it felt that the drop was due to the withdrawal of bullish speculators from the market when it became plain that U. S. wheat, long buoyed above world prices by the Farm Board, was seeking a level which would make exports possible. Although the Farm Board has been...
This question of the student attitude toward politics which has been bothering your correspondents and editorial writers the last few days seems to be placing the blame most unfairly. Your editorial repeats the hallowed junk about "academic detachment" and advocates men studying such matters from a high judgment seat far removed from the blood and sweat of actual conflict. That is a good point of departure, but it is insane to expect anyone to get a true picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually...
...Cleveland address. His refrain about the Depression: "Let no man say it could not have been worse." The President fought back the Democratic charge that the U. S. and its stock speculations were responsible for the 1929 crash, stuck doggedly to his claim that worldwide forces were to blame. He insisted Governor Roosevelt* had wilfully ignored such factors as ''the greatest war in history . . . the killing or incapacitating of 40,000,000 of the best youth of the earth . . . the harsh treaties which ended the War . . . the carving of twelve new nations from three old empires . . . the increase...
...Marconi Scandal," raised a cry of Corruption. Before the House of Commons, Lloyd George made an impassioned plea for vindication. Sir Rufus followed with a long, calm, judicial speech, admitting negligence, denying any connection between stock purchase and contract. The House accepted his apology, cleared him of blame...