Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tricky Gadgets. Speakers at the N.C.C.C.I, rally stressed the point that much of the blame for inflation lies outside Washington. Said Ohio's Senator Frank J. Lausche: "Every citizen has a part to play in this fight against inflation." Inflation curbing, said Missouri's veteran Congressman Clarence Cannon, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, "must begin at the grass roots." Economist Edwin G. Nourse, head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Harry Truman, rapped "tricky gadgets" of inflation, such as cost-of-living escalator clauses in union-management wage contracts. "We should stop...
Undented Defense. Democrats Lausche and Cannon put little or no blame for the current surge of price-spiraling on Dwight Eisenhower & Co. In the same nonpartisan spirit, a congressional subcommittee chaired by Arkansas' Congressman Wilbur D. Mills unanimously concluded last week that the Administration had done right in backing up the Federal Reserve Board's inflation-fighting tight-money policy of bridling bank credit. Reported the committee, after interviewing three dozen experts: tight money pinches, but it restrains inflation-and inflation pinches harder and more unjustly...
...stop his elegant green Lagonda convertible when a Morris slowed for a turn, failed to brake fast enough, clonked into the tiny car. The Morris pilot hopped out in a huff, "thinking 'Some stupid clod's hit me,' " melted immediately when Philip cheerfully took the blame. Damage to Queen, Prince and commoner: none. To Philip's prestige as president of the auto association: sufficient dents that a London columnist suggested it would be just as well if he stopped chauffeuring the Queen...
Mourning the japesters' heyday of James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sullivan and Robert Benchley, aging (54) Poetical Punster Ogden Nash laid the blame for lost laughter to the cold war and a generation of young writers "who feel it their business to attack incest." Invited by Night Beat TV Interviewer Al Morgan to select one poem from the Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery most likely to survive the ice age 'of creeping exurbia and the great woolly adman, Nash moodily recalled "some hair-of-the-dog-gerel from my unregenerate youth: 'Candy is dandy, but liquor...
What is the reason for the crime wave? Some officials blame it on "mass-production" education, others on the fact that some of the new colleges and universities are really phony institutions, interested mainly in student fees. Whatever the cause, prewar respect for learning and authority has dwindled; a frightening number of young criminals offer no other explanation for their acts than that they were out "just for thrills." In the first four months of 1957, the number of students arrested topped 2,500. This spring police found that university students were the masterminds behind three large juvenile gangs...