Word: blames
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education, $20 million extra for a cost-of-living raise for state employees. He allotted $54 million for increased costs of social welfare, but observed tartly: "The investigation of public welfare administration in New York City raises serious question as to whether irresponsible local administration is not to blame. . . ." He firmly drew the line against any but the "most urgent" construction and public works projects...
Stimson made some effort to divide the blame. "To the Air Forces, the Navy was a backward service with no proper understanding of air power; to the Navy, the Air Forces was a loud-mouthed and ignorant branch which had not even mastered its own element...
Last week, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced measures that might make business at least share the blame: 1) an all-party committee of Parliament would look into profiteering; 2) there would be prosecutions "where necessary" under the Combines Investigation Act and Prices Board regulations. Despite promises to the contrary, many an astute political observer felt sure that the probe would turn into a Roman circus, with Liberal and CCF lions crunching the bones of business. The Financial Post sneered that the government had acted out of "A combination of political fear and old-fashioned peeve." Consumers would enjoy the show...
Gandhi thought he knew where to place at least part of the blame: on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, his longtime friend and boss of the Congress Party...
...threefold: 1) inadequate equipment and research; 2) failure to keep up with new meteorological techniques abroad; 3) scientific inertia at home. Congress, which keeps the U.S. Weather Bureau on a starvation allowance, was guilty on the first count. But the official weatherman had to take some of the blame...