Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul McNutt is on a limb, it is not his friends' fault. It is Franklin Roosevelt's-or McNutt's own for trying to block Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. Ever since then Paul McNutt has been polite to the New Deal, but also ever since then Jim Farley has called McNutt a platinum-haired so-&-so, a feeling which is mutual...
...sharp rebuttal: "We are told that our motives are to isolate Germany . . . Germany is isolating herself and doing it most successfully and completely. . . . The last thing we desire is to see the individual German man or woman or child suffering privations; but if they do so the fault does not lie with us ... for any day it can be ended by a policy of cooperation. ... I come next to Lebensraum [living space]. ... It can only be solved by ... adjusting and improving . . . relations with other countries abroad. [But it is] impossible to negotiate with a Government whose responsible spokesmen brand...
...Bell. Not since 1921, when the E-6 went down at its moorings with a torpedo tube open, had the Navy had a submarine accident caused by mechanical failure or fault of the crew. Aboard a man-of-war floating above the 8-4 when she sank off Provincetown in 1927 with a loss of 40 lives, a thoughtful young officer named Allen R. McCann had been profoundly shocked by the inadequacy of rescue methods. Brooding over the problem of getting men out of a submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface...
...Wolff does not deny tutoring altogether, but he insists that his clients have covered the assigned material and want to "supplement" it; have neglected their studies "through no fault of their own"; or else "are temporarily unable to do their college work without this guidance...
...HOLY TERROR-H. G. Wells-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). Most of H. G. Wells's 80 books have pictured the shape of things to come; if nobody knows what the future holds, it is not his fault. In The Holy Terror he sees the same old Wellsian future: the final World War, a world dictatorship, and at last, off in the misty distance, the World State. Many an oldster bores mankind about the past; in The Holy Terror, Wells manages to be dull about things that have not even happened...