Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cairo correspondents were inclined not to blame "Jumbo" or the censors so much as London officialdom. The U.S. press, which for the most part has squirmed silently under increasing censorship pressures, took courage from the stirring of the powerful, slow-to-anger A.P. U.S. newsmen were also heartened last week to hear England's press baron, Lord Rothermere (London Daily Mail, et al.) echo the old cry of Kent Cooper for treaties guaranteeing universal freedom of the press. Declared Viscount Rothermere: "A free press is apparently a greater deterrent to the making of war than anything that...
...Pegler complains that when he wrote ... in blame of Mr. Field, and in praise of Mr. Field's rival [Colonel McCormick], the Daily News omitted his column. This is true. I killed the columns myself. ... If he had written one-sidedly in praise of Field and in blame of McCormick, my decision would have been the same...
...such tricks as bringing them to a smart attention, and shouting "April Fool" when the Professor didn't show ... Does anyone know why Gordon Johnson keeps a pigeon on his bureau? ... And if the swing rendition of taps on the ocarina in C Entry Chase has you puzzled, blame it on Kelly Hunt, pride of the Lone Star State...
...greatest blame for cooling off between France and America is placed by thinking Frenchmen on Mr. Roosevelt himself. Reports have spread in French Africa of the President's personal vindictiveness against General de Gaulle...
...chief field is still sports (last football season he picked 153 winners, in 172 games; in this basketball season he has miscalled only two out of 50), but anything is likely to attract his punditry. He sums up the problem of teen age delinquency thus: "I don't blame the men in service at all these young girls are up town to get picked up they get picked up alright that is their fault. . . . I can't understand what is the matter with some of the parents some of these sixteen year old girls up town...