Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gompers had a great opportunity to prove the sincerity of his patriotism and the reality of his claim to public spirit when the strike came up, by repudiating and denouncing it. He failed in the test; he attempted to put the blame on a governor and a police commissioner who had acted promptly to save the public service from guardians who refused to guard. Mr. Gompers had his chance and lost it. His Federation of Labor, of which he has shown himself to be the dictator at Montreal, has indorsed this dangerous and detrimental judgment. It has by this choice...
Investigation of the stupendous expenditures made by the leading Presidential candidates in their fight for the nomination has shown that something is radically wrong with our present haphazard primary system. The candidates who have been scattering hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout the country are no more to blame than the conditions which made their orgy of spending possible...
...blames the judges on the ground that they were New Englanders and hence dominated by "Harvard ideals" and in accord with the ideas and the institution for which the Harvard team stood." Why not blame the judges for being Americans? The American feeling, if I am not mistaken, is strongly opposed to the curtailment of free speech. Surely the judges must have been influenced by the American feeling...
...does Mr. Palmer impute the blame of the decision to Harvard? Truly he cannot have attended many debates, else he would not have blamed either side for the vagaries of judges...
...blame, I think, lies with us. The selection of the judges was the fault. It is not fair that in an East vs. West debate the judges should all be New Englanders. Putting to one side the personal characteristics of the judges, can it be that they, who are completely in accord with the institution and ideas that the Harvard team stood for and who are completely in discord with the principles that the team from the West brings with them, can it be that they can judge such a debate fairly? It seems to me that they are absolutely...