Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high tariff and a conspiracy by sugar manipulators are the most frequently alleged causes of the rise in sugar prices, but the Federal Reserve Board, having political enemies, too, has had to take its share of the blame. Says Representative King (Rep.) of Illinois: "The present high price of sugar is due almost entirely to financing of speculators through the Federal Reserve System. This financing enabled the speculators to hold sugar off the market and boost the price...
...general the book relates the part America played in forming the League and the part she has failed to play in backing it. It lays the blame of the appalling conditions prevalent in present-day Europe at America's door and impinges upon a series of facts which the author holds as damning the honor of the United States. The book contains a very clear if somewhat superficial account of the League's activities...
...Suppose, for instance, that you, leaping up from your seat in the sixth row center, were to level an accusing finger at the dissolute brother and shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying to lay the blame, who took the missing papers from the lower drawer of the mahogany desk in the upper left hand corner of the stage just before the curtain fell on Act I, Scene...
...67th will receive both praise and blame for what it left undone. Among a mass of interesting business which it will probably hand down to Number 68, there are seventy-seven proposed amendments to the Constitution, including...
Sixteen large churches have burned, and smaller fires have been numerous. At first the blame was laid upon overheated furnaces or defective wiring. But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected. Staid insurance journals, never influenced by casual rumor, regard human agency as probable; fire insurance underwriters will insure Catholic churches only to a limited extent and at high rates...