Word: villainizing
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...speculating fraternity, vaguely tagged as "gamblers," has become the Administration's favorite whipping boy for high commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 27). But speculators could scarcely be blamed for the high price of tobacco, which almost doubled since prewar. In tobacco, as in most commodities, the villain was demand. Last week the villain was confounded...
...Business is Villain...
...worst villain of the piece, according to Lynd, is big business, which has "exploited the symbols of democracy to get the U.S. in line with their private purposes." He also condemned the N.A.M. for furthering the principle of monopoly rights under the guise of "competition...
During that time, the Government had purchased for export somewhere around 270 million bushels of grain. The President, a little hysterically, tried to make the grain speculators the villains (see BUSINESS). But there was no villain - only the law of supply & demand...
...Jinnah is far too easy a villain: conceivably an obsessed child of Mohamed conceivably a man seized in his declining years by that most dangerous form of satyriasis which longs for naked power alone, Jinnah has beyond question done more than any other man in India to exacerbate the sores of communalism and to tease and torment their rawness; and this purely to secure his nation, and a torn body for India...