Word: complain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly basis, measured by the previous week's average price. The present wholesale price of New York sugar is $5.75 per 100 lb. on which, under the Smoot plan, the tariff would be $2.50 ($1.96 on Cuban). Said Senator Smoot: "Certainly nobody in the U. S. can complain of 6? sugar...
...effective check on their own boats and their own people engaged in the violation of their own law. If they would follow the Canadian practice [of clearances] they would have a means of control which would in a large measure provide the remedy for the conditions of which they complain." Assistant Secretary Lowman in Washington failed to see it that way. Said he: "It makes no difference what [clearance] regulations you have, because bootleggers will not register their vessels in any event. They are just as willing to ignore the navigation laws as they are the prohibition and customs laws...
...school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money spent on him as any other...
Hollywood Equity members complain that they were not consulted. In less than one month, 160 of them have signed non-Equity contracts...
...whaddya wanna do, sing 'Sonny Boy?'"That is Broadway's latest wisecrack to victims who complain unduly, or to friends grown maudlin in their cups. In England, "Sonny Boy," a super-saccharine ballad of child love introduced by Blackface Singer Al Jolson in his latest sound film, is still new and popular. More, it has become a Conservative campaign song...