Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still permitted Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson to argue that a Democratic Congress would be good for Ike. Expressing mock surprise that the President was supporting Republicans after so many of them had "failed to support" the Administration program, Johnson cracked that "President Eisenhower will have no one to blame but himself" if a G.O.P. Congress is elected. Cried Lyndon: "That man is a glutton for punishment...
...girl: "If ever there was any doubt within me that integration would work, it has been completely dissolved." But the visitors also wanted New Rochelle to know just who was causing all the trouble back home. Said Robert Rodgers of Baltimore's Southern High School: "Don't blame the pupils for the demonstrations against non-segregation. A few parents began to agitate, so pupils stayed away from school. It was as simple as shooting off a gun to start a herd of cattle running...
...Havilland Aircraft Co., builders of the Comets, could not have been happy to hear the results of the inquiry, which placed the blame for the crashes on faulty design and manufacturing methods. But Britain's aircraft industry might well be proud of the inquiry's utter frankness. Its designers are already using the Farnborough testing methods to make sure that such disasters will not happen again...
...violent opinion was expressed by John William Marchetti, who resigned last May as electronics director of the Cambridge Air Force Research Center after a row with a new commanding officer. Said Marchetti: "We got decisions that were stupid, just plain stupid, and some that were intolerable." He did not blame the military men for all the friction. "It is one clique pitted against another ... 'It is said of a well-known Air Force research and development center that at the officers' club the relative ranks are officers, enlisted men, dogs and civilians...
Standard of Value. Coffee Exchange President Gustavo Lobo Jr. said that FTC's complaint about coffee was made on "flimsy grounds," and put the blame on the July 1953 frost that threatened a coffee shortage and touched off a wild rise in prices. Lobo explained that Santos 4 coffee is the basis for trading because it "is the most popular coffee, the . . . standard of value." But the exchange does trade in other grades, said he (in all, about 40% of U.S. coffee). Actually, prices are set not by the exchange alone. Such big roasters as A. & P., General Foods...