Word: scapegoats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace found a new scapegoat for his agricultural troubles. He blamed the Dictators' barter methods for the failure of Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties to win markets for U. S. farm products...
...autocracy the group ganged up on one child, treated him so badly that he dropped out of the club. Thereupon the club began to bully another "scapegoat...
...prime factor that makes a nation fertile for fascism is a desperate internal situation. A minor prerequisite is a scapegoat minority population on which the fascist leaders can blame the nation's troubles, unite the nation behind them and against...
...weeks of French mobilization were featured by unholy traffic jams and messes. Aghast, however, was Paris last week to learn that, if war had come, a large, percentage of the capital's population would have lacked gas masks-a fine French scandal for which no culprit or scapegoat had been found up to this week. Meanwhile, energetic, square-jawed Radical Socialist Premier Edouard Daladier was greeted by the French Chamber of Deputies with a vote of confidence in what he did at Munich, 535-to-75-nearly all the dissenters being Communists...
...Government declaration that "British factories are filled to capacity with orders!" After hours of acrimonious debate, the Cabinet won a vote of confidence by only 299-to-131, and it was clear that Swinton would have to be permitted to resign, as planned by Tactician Chamberlain, to provide a scapegoat for the unpopular "American purchases...