Word: blames
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much importance. The judge had done his painful duty as he saw it. "I'm here to see that justice is done," Judge Reeves explained. "If the reading of the report imperils the Government, the Government ought not to be [in court]." Neither was the FBI to blame; by the nature of its work it received many reports to sift-some true, many false. These reports had been made public through a process beyond its control and over its protests...
...investors in Tucker had only themselves to blame; the Securities & Exchange Commission had said practically the same thing when it blew the whistle on Tucker's initial effort to sell stock...
...blame Harvard indifference; the whole thing is geographic. Fecundity increases in a westerly direction, and the fertile crescent appears to be the Rocky Mountain-Pacific area. Naturally coeducational schools are more prolific than bachelor or spinster academics...
...whites, voted unanimously to let 36-year-old Bill Cothrum, a white contractor, build a 408-unit Negro housing development on land adjacent to a white section. "We talk of doing things to house the Negroes," argued one of Cothrum's supporters, "but I don't blame them for looking at us with distrust in their eyes...of course we have to make sacrifices." The city of Jackson, Miss. opened a new $500,000 park for Negroes, then voted a $350,000 bond issue to build a civic auditorium in the park...
...Strictly Legitimate. When the children are caught, the doting parents are appalled by the news. They blame themselves more than the children, and it is lucky for them that they are so merciful. For, in the very course of probing the children's small sin to the bottom, their own larger sins suddenly escape out of the past and confront them. The family butler turns out to be Sir Roderick's son. One of the schoolteachers proves to be a son of Grandpa Firebrace. And the second Lady Shelley, it turns out, has sold jewelry that does...