Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Government bonds near record lows, bond speculators have been taking much of the blame from the Government for their part in the debacle. Last week one of the biggest Wall Street dealers in Government bonds hit back with some plain talk about speculation and Government bond policies. The U.S. Treasury, said Aubrey G. Lanston, president of Aubrey G. Lanston Inc., not only encouraged speculators to come into the market by tailoring its offerings to attract them, but would have been unable to sell $26.5 billion of recent middle and long-term securities without "a good dose of speculation...
...interfere with the rights and duties of Congress. Yet his effort to be "President of all the people," his refusal to stoop to political partisanship, to indulge in personal attacks, to cry out in alarm, to dramatize himself as the nation's savior, has partly been to blame for doubts about his "leadership." Working mostly within the confines of his White House office and of the staff system to which he is dedicated, he has failed to translate and dramatize his achievements in a personal style. He has failed to follow one great dictum of vaudevillians and successful politicians...
However this may be, there is no one who does not regard the new situation as regrettable. Athletic Director Tom Bolles has been the target of some unfair blame in this connection in local "jock" circles. Bolles is as sorry as anyone about things; but he has simply had to find some way of getting along with less money...
...merits of the Kennedy-Ives bill may be debated, but the Republican Party should display a greater concern for the truth than to blame the Democrats for its defeat...
...Nelson Rockefeller's mind, the oil companies were not alone in neglecting Latin America. The U.S. itself had scant contact south of the border, and with war coming, as he saw it, needed Western Hemisphere neighbor nations it hardly knew. Rockefeller put the blame on the State Department for not following up U.S. business entries into Latin America with higher-type diplomacy, said as much in a report he forwarded to White House Chamberlain Harry Hopkins. Hopkins read the report, showed it to Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt asked the 32-year-old Rockefeller to visit him. Upshot of the call...