Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone there to complain about her rival's tactics, meets Buzzy, mistakes him for the consul. Their romance begins when, he inducts her into the technique of chewing gum; nearly smashes when, in the picture's funniest sequence, she telephones the real consul to tell him she has swallowed...
...employes were reported to have signed petitions declaring themselves content with their lot, anxious to keep on working. President Martin cried "vigilantes" at the Flint Alliance, denounced Leader Boysen as a onetime G. M. paymaster, accused G. M. of obtaining the petition signatures by intimidation, promised to complain to the National Labor Relations Board. But that many a G. M. worker hated & feared the union for depriving or threatening to deprive him of his pay was one of the darkest clouds on U. A. W.'s horizon...
...Wages. Not even Homer Martin, however, could complain that the automobile industry is a sweated one. Always famed for comparatively high daily pay, it has since 1935 materially increased its workers' yearly earnings by introducing new models in November instead of January, thus leveling off its concentrated production periods and corresponding layoffs. General Motors has twice set aside a $60,000,000 revolving fund to finance slack-season production of parts, thereby upping its workers' annual pay by $400 to $500 apiece. In 1936 the "average" G. M. employe worked 40.2 hours per week, earned 78.6? per hour...
...drawn and serious face [of Mr. Burton] and the accompanying fantastic and lewd deformity was so extravagant that ... it made of the plaintiff a preposterously ridiculous spectacle, and the obvious mistake only added to the amusement. . . . The plaintiff has been substantially enough ridiculed to be in a position to complain. . . . Possibly anyone who chooses to stir such a controversy in court cannot have been very sensitive originally, but that is a consideration for the jury...
...Beaux-Arts built a five-story structure in Manhattan to house its own drawing classes. But architects and colleges were beginning to complain that its slant was too traditional, theoretical, unpractical. Year after year the problem sent contestants for the Beaux-Arts Scholarship to Paris was an opera house, although no notable opera house had meanwhile gone up in the land except the one Utilitarian Samuel Insull built in Chicago in 1929. As Beaux-Arts prestige threatened to crack, University of California resigned its membership and University of Virginia followed...