Word: scape-goat
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Schulman denied that the firing has anything to do with the recent "piety" controversy. He noted, however, that the same people who voted to prohibit religious ceremonies in Association meetings are now supporting Wiegand. "They are using him as a 'scape-goat' to hinder my administration," he said. He said his opponents had a "sour grapes" attitude toward his election. Schulman, a "dark horse" candidate, won the presidency of the association by one vote...
...rest of the story, you can print anything in our rag that you so desire just so long as you don't make up anything more that will get me in trouble with the law. I'm as good a scape-goat as any, and you can probably invent some pretty fine stories. Send the clippings to me when you print them for my scrapbook if you would be so kind. I would like you to print this letter if you want to but print it in its entirely and don't, please, add any little inventions of your...
Then Herbert Hoover set forth a plan that completely about-faced the American program for Germany. Heavy industries are no longer the scape-goat of post-war planning but receive the coal with which Potsdam had intended to bolster Allied countries, French recovery receives a staggering set-back under the new plan, for Germany now retains 79 percent of its own mined coal and the Saar mines fall far short of the production needed to smelt down Alsace Lorraine ore. France must either pay $22 per ton for American coal or do without the fourteen million tons her industries lack...
When Sir Samuel was forced out of office some few weeks ago, many felt that he had been both the victim of typical Laval manoevres, and the scape-goat of the highly embarrassed British government. His resignation saved the day, although it has been intimated that Hoare and Eden were not on particularly good terms; Eden being fanatically devoted to the League and seeing in Hoare's attempt to sell Ethiopia out virtual imperilling of the League's future. However, Hoare and Eden will not have an opportunity to cross each other's bows, for Eden will remain in charge...
...upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth and ashes, fixed a Day of Atonement, and picked a Scape-goat...