Word: complained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when compared with Europe. We have abundant resources of clothing and shelter. Hunger and cold can only be the result of the foolish functioning of our own economic and political system. If four fifths of our children were starving, if our industrial reorganization were broken down, then we could complain. As it is, we only have grounds for despondency if we have not the impulse of charity to respond to this plea. But I know it is sufficient for Americans only to know of the existence of these children for them to act generously...
...general public, and especially the unhoused public, has a right to complain bitterly of conditions which have made building in New York, and to a considerable extent in other cities, dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers...
Several men have told of being accosted by agents selling goods claimed to be smuggled into the country, and so cheaper than usual, while others complain of men pleading for recommendation for scholarships to put them through college, and temporary financial assistance. Often they enter through open doors and choose their spoils at leisure. For this reason students are advised to keep their doors locked and their valuables out of sight...
...direct. Instead of being told, the student has to tell, and to do this he cannot help but think. If Seniors will look back upon their careers at college, they will realize that in the class room, not the lecture hall, their minds were widest awake. Universities and colleges complain bitterly that their greatest men, the heads of their departments, cannot be kept because of the poor salaries offered. Endowment drives are under way for the main purpose of keeping the great minds in the teaching profession. But do not let us neglect the foreman of education--the section...