Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a plane available when I wanted to go, but the Americans had dozens-so I was told by the handsome American major who runs that part of the show. Mind you, I don't think this was deliberate, but when I missed the plane, through no fault of his, and came trailing back to the hotel in the evening, dirty and disappointed, it was probably only coincidence that the major was sitting in the lobby having a pink tea with my girl...
...succeed volcanic Leon Henderson as Price Boss (see above), Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...
...true that the story of the North African fighting was not being fully told. But it was truer that the delays were definitely not the fault of the 40-odd correspondents (most of them Americans) covering it. They have been doing their job-281,000 words were filed from Algiers in the first 13 days of the invasion-in the face of double difficulty...
...good of everybody, and tough as it seems, the war may be the only thing which will make the people realize this. If big business goes about their work with the idea of making as much money as they can, there's bound to be trouble. But the fault is not entirely theirs. Labor has got to understand that problems of production. They haven't any right to ask for higher wages when the government is putting a ceiling on the things they are producing...
...could I blame Harvard men for failing to wear hats when I was so annoyed with my own. It wasn't the students' fault, but the architects', for failing to provide facilities to dispose of headgear during lectures and classes...