Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diefenbaker seems to blame the Americans for what he doesn't like. But what have the Americans done? They have brought money into Canada. They have invested in the future of Canada. They have done it as best fits in with operation of wholly-owned subsidiaries to American corporations. Almost without exception, their stock ownership is available to Canadians. Canadians, if they had the money and the inclination, could control every one of the American companies operating in Canada. If Americans can see the opportunity in Canada and Canadians are blind to it, why criticize the Americans...
...President placed much of the blame on irresponsible politicians, but he also had words of warning for his own military comrades, who might be thinking of delaying the return to democracy. "We did not overthrow one man.'' he said, "to substitute another. We would rather have a mediocre government as long as it represents the will of the people." The plan to hold presidential elections Feb. 23 and turn over power in May "will be inexorably carried out," and any interference by power-hungry men would meet "the granite wall of the people's will...
...beyond the squalid skulduggery of any individual labor leader is the question of labor's role in a nation confronted by creeping inflation. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, aware of a growing resentment, tried to pass the blame to management-and had it tossed right back (see below). Indeed, there was justification for the idea that labor's basic appetites are inflationary. Said the New York Times this week: "There is a built-in 'political' need for the labor union leader to win a wage increase every year, if at all possible...
...attend. But all of a sudden, on a lodge night, I realize I haven't been home with the family for three nights running. Then there'll be a damn good prizefight on TV. You know what loses out."* From the Elks to the Moose, fraternal leaders blame home TV, the automobile, the country club for the new apathy among the brethren. "The young people want something a little faster," admits Odd Fellow Edward McCarty of Lamed, Kans. (pop. 4,447). The lodge has lost its old appeal of exclusiveness and its local VIP leaders, e.g., the town...
...congressional achievement this session, he would continue in his conviction that the ground rules specify separate functions for the branches, that the executive should not attempt to browbeat the legislative. And if his tactics, when the capital season ended, lost a pennant, he was unapologetically ready to shoulder the blame...