Word: scapegoatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vices and foibles of the system have long been concealed by the democratic boast that "everyone who wants to, makes a club." Jim Ridgeway, chairman of The Daily Princetonian, published an editorial warning Prospect that its policy would prove disastrous, that one club would be used as a scapegoat and dumping ground by the irresponsible other sixteen, who could then continue the old boast without themselves doing a thing to achieve it. As a result, the Interclub Committee summoned Ridgeway and his managing editor to their meeting place in the library of Ivy Club, hotly denounced them both for "incompetence...
...uproar of frustration there was a rush to find a scapegoat. First in line were the scientists and Pentagon press-agents who had yielded to press clamor for information on this nonsecret project. Even Vanguard's Boss, Dr. Hagen, handed out some afterthoughts. "This program," he said, "has had unprecedented publicity in the development stage, which is not usually the case, and in many respects I think it is unfortunate. In this case, I think the enthusiasm of the country carried people beyond the point where the fact that this is a test phase was lost sight...
...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles is becoming Washington's newest scapegoat for its defense troubles. Scientist-Engineer Quarles (Western Electric and Bell Labs) is being blamed for enforcing former Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson's stretch-out and cutback policies with too little protest and too much relish. On Capitol Hill, within a fortnight investigating committees of both House and Senate have been critical of Quarles. In the Pentagon, he is in disfavor with the Navy (for criticizing super carriers), with the Army (for refusing it medium-range missiles), and with the Air Force, although...
...David J. McDonald: "Even without raising prices and without obtaining greatest output per man-hour, the corporation is in a position to increase its net profit from $348.1 million in 1956 to $437 million in 1957." The steel industry, charged Dave McDonald, is trying to make the union a "scapegoat" for the "irresponsibility of pricing policies which have contributed to the rising trend of prices for more than a decade...
...agencies' but the legislature's; and the indecision of the legislature reflects ultimately the inability and unwillingness of the public to achieve a consensus. Perhaps this means simply that the problems are not sufficently acute to overcome American political intertia. It is childish to make a scapegoat of the agencies, and nothing could be more ludicrous--and characteristic--than the proposal in question. I propose that the Commitee meet once a week in silent self-contemplation and investigate itself. Louis L.Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative...