Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present evil times for chiropractors they blame vaguely on Dr. Palmer. But Dr. William H. Werner of New York City, slickly barbered president of the American Bureau of Chiropractic and hence technical head of the profession, went to his defense, venomously: "It's all wrong for you to go on cursing and damning and abusing B. J. It is not right folks. He is human. He has his little weaknesses, as who among us has not? He has his faults. But let us not go on cursing, abusing, and damning him. ... I tell you, friends, it gave me a heartache...
...Grandi, already assured of parity with France, already aware of her maximum demands, would simply repeat with a virtuous air Signor Benito Mussolini's old saying, repeated at every conference for years, "Italy stands ready to reduce to any common minimum, even the lowest" (TIME, Jan. 27). Thus the blame for maintaining heavy armaments would be shifted neatly and wholly on to France...
Such an impression is highly unfortunate, and strenuous measures of some kind should certainly be taken to correct it. Yet it seems hardly fair to put the blame wholly upon individuals, when the sweeping generality of the complaint is in itself proof that the fault lies rather with the institution. Obviously, men are being sent from the Law School out into the legal world with no knowledge of the truly important functions of the lower courts and a consequent lack of respect for the Bench...
Before the City Council last week appeared Chicago's Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Sweepingly he vetoed two-thirds of the lean budget. Sweepingly he absolved his administration of blame for the fiscal fix, put the blame on real estate revaluators.* Generously he proposed a budget greater by $6,313,000 than Chicago's estimated 1930 revenue, demanded reinstatement of 1,502 employes. Galleries crammed with jobless Thompson men roared with applause when the City Fathers failed to override this program...