Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whose Fault? Why replacements and reinforcements had been so long in arriving was one of the questions which went unanswered last week. The 6,000,-mile supply line from the U.S. may have been one answer. Other questions...
...outraged whinnies of indignant bewilderment that greeted the opening of a mild little comedy called "Mr. Sycamore" last week were but one more evidence of a serious fault in the American theatre. That is the slow paralyzing of audience imagination by the increasing perfection of the theatrical technique called Realism...
...fault is a basic one. The Hygiene Department is limping along with a sadly depleted staff of doctors, three of whom are attempting to do the work in athletics which normally requires six. No relief is in sight, since the supply of doctors threatens to grow even smaller as time goes...
...Crimson's editorialist of Oct. 9 and I disagree so completely that I cannot resist answering. He is right when he asserts that gross injustice prevailed in what he terms "the chaotic free enterprise of the twenties." But the injustice was not the fault of free enterprise at all. Cartels, tariffs, monopolies: these injustices of the twenties, and the thirties and forties, too, are all based upon the stifling of free enterprise. The beneficiaries of these devices, when challenged with their ill-gotten gains, habitually call upon free enterprise to sanctify them. Many reformers have never checked the validity...
...that moment, on Capitol Hill, Administration stalwarts sweated blood to get the President's inflation bill passed. In his demand for a law by Oct. 1, the President had put Congress on a spot. Most leaders felt that the price-control mess was as much his fault as Congress'. For a year he had done little more than they to control inflation and they felt he had passed the buck to them. And now particularly, when they had just whipped the farm bloc in a bitter battle, the President's words were like the slash...