Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this quarrel, Jeffers was on the losing side. But the fault was not his. He had clear marching orders: to carry out the Baruch program, down to the last valve and pressure gauge. Like any good soldier, he was ready to keep marching until he dropped-or until his chief gave him new orders...
This time, at least, the fault lies not with the body of the Army, but with the War Department at its head. Whether the Department has finally made up its mind will be discovered only when the actual orders begin to arrive...
...year, Congress whirls dizzily along in a maelstrom of personal and legislative animosities. with the bill still far from finished and the taxpayer, left out in the cold as usual, watching the match from a seat in the third balcony. Neither Congress nor the treasury, both quick to find fault with the plan proposed by Beardsley Ruml, Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, have come forward with any final plan of their own. It would seem as if their chief reason for opposing the Ruml plan is that someone else thought of it first. After Ruml's five...
...establishment of regulations that all war plants must provide 40-hr.-week employment now, and later a 48-hr, week, with full payment for overtime; 2) a national wage policy which will guarantee to all war plant employes who work less than 40 hours per week through no fault of their own the equivalent of 40-hr.-per-week pay-the cost to be borne by the Government when material shortages are to blame, by the management when it is to blame; 3) release to other plants of all employes who cannot get full employment; 4) stabilization of wage rates...
...music, like a game of chess, takes practice to be understood. The critics who try to "popularize" good music and whip up team spirit for conductors and orchestras, do so partly from lack of anything better to do, and partly to give themselves some kind of community dignity. The fault lies with the institution of music criticism, which, as it stands now, does more damage to its ailing Muse than it does good...