Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into speedy consultation with his Cabinet." In all, Censor Wilkinson deleted 61 ft. from the reel. Because he considered that the work of his League of Nations Union had been deliberately minimized to spare the feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films." Always glad of a chance to blast any kind of censor ship, London editors found...
...Economists are still trying to find out what it was that hit us back in 1929. I am not a professional economist but I think I know. What hit us was a decade of debauch, of group selfishness. . . . "Some individuals are never satisfied. People complain to me about the current costs of rebuilding America, about the burden on future generations. I tell them that whereas the deficit of the Federal Government this year is about three billion dollars, the national income of the people of the United States has risen from thirty-five billions in the year 1932 to sixty...
Herbert Hoover used to go behind the backs of editors and reporters to complain to their publishers when news treatment did not suit him. Franklin Roosevelt is known to have achieved better results by approaching the news writers and editors behind their publishers' backs. Fortnight ago he entertained junketing members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the White House. There was exciting, off-the-record talks by Harry Hopkins and John Edgar Hoover and, when his turn came, the President told his charmed audience that he wished the nation's news could be presented without "color...
...guarantee of $82,000, had only half of it when the first concert was given. The rejuvenated orchestra has taken care of the rest. Attendance has been some 40% better than in 1929. Next year the orchestra personnel will be increased, the season probably extended. The only one to complain of the good fortune has been the gruff-looking conductor with the famed walrus mustachios. Monteux hates dinner parties, has been obliged to attend more than...
Clearly, with no incentive for good teaching--in fact, when holding a teaching job demands that teaching be relegated to the background,--it is not surprising that the teaching level of the Physics department is at a discouragingly low ebb. Concentrators complain that tutorial is a farce. No tutor can be expected to give adequate attention to that part of his work when to do so is nothing short of suicidal. Three years are required to develop an inexperienced instructor into a good tutor; by that time one of two things has happened to him. He has tried to become...