Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stronger talk on the shortage came from Florida's Bishop Joseph Patrick Hurley, most out-&-out pre-Pearl Harbor interventionist in the U.S. hierarchy. He said the shortage had caused "the greatest leakage which the Church in America has suffered." He did not blame the priests, but accused some of his fellow Bishops in the North of "unwillingness . . . to disturb existing organizations; a persistent inability to face facts; a tendency . . . to engage in negative criticism rather than in constructive collaboration...
...Blame must be placed, since he is top boss, on the Sun's bumpkinish, pumpkinish Publisher Silliman Evans, righthand man to Owner Marshall Field. Publisher Evans has been either unwilling or unable to install high-powered, adequately experienced men in executive jobs. Result: a constant, white-hot office turmoil, and one of the biggest turnovers of employes in newspaper annals. For many, the Sun newsroom has been a worrisome place to work...
...politics. In a turgid study of the fall of France (TIME, Jan. 25), Giraud inveighed against corruption in politics, the lack of principle in business, the domination of trade unions, the collapse of home life. Like others stunned by the French retreat from greatness, Giraud tended to blame industrialization, showed no sympathy for materialistic individualism. His proposals for homespun reforms were in close sympathy with Marshal Pétain's attempts to substitute "Work, Family, Country" for "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...
Since Sept. 3, 1939, little Britons in pubs and big Britons in clubs have debated whether the whole German people are to blame for Nazi Germany and World War II, or whether only evil, powerful men and their dupes are responsible. Last week, in a House of Lords debate, smooth, grim Lord Vansittart restated his familiar view that all Germans are accomplices and that, whatever happens to them as individuals, Germany should be destroyed "utterly and forever as a military power." Winston Churchill's grey advocate and Lord Chancellor, Viscount Simon, promptly made it clear that on this issue...
...based on a strong private capital market in which the Morgan firm led. But in the end The Corner was sucked into dabbling in the stocks of holding companies such as Standard Brands, United Corp. and the hapless Alleghany Corp. Though the Federal Reserve authorities were to blame in not clamping down on the excesses of 1929, the Morgan outfit, as the most responsible house on the Street, also had to take...