Word: complained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospitals, notably State insane asylums, are overcrowded. Of 228 mental hospitals that replied to the committee's inquiry 135 reported excess of patients over normal capacity. In 74 the crowding was more than 15% beyond the rating. Four mental hospitals contained more than 50% excess patients. General hospitals complain of their empty beds, which last year totaled 35.7% of capacity. Some of these vacancies constitute a kind of insurance against over-crowding during epidemics, fires, flood, earthquakes. But many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build, although...
...only seen but heard. At such dinners he usually makes an extemporaneous speech, and so he did last week. The Justice gave a general discourse on good citizenship and the problems of government. In the course of it he referred to the fact that some attorneys complain, when they lose a case, that the Court has been unfair. Said he while an Associated Press Phi Delta Theta took notes...
...their fifth U. S. tour the Wiener Sängerknaben still eat heartily, still complain that they are not allowed chewing gum. They range from 8 to 13. After the Ripon concert they were to go to New Castle, Pa. thence to Hamilton...
...article by one Alan Carse as having confessed to a gathering of mail order strongmen at Atlantic City that the only reason he sold his courses without equipment was that after having advertised he could think of no novel item to offer. When the customers began to complain to the postal authorities he simply had to give them something, so he gave them "dynamic tension." Vastly annoyed, Mr. Atlas complained to the Federal Trade Commission. Subsequently Mr. Hoffman cheerfully admitted that there was no one by the name of Alan Carse, that he wrote the article himself, that...
have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government." (1832) Abraham Lincoln: "If the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, it is plain that the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." (1857) There is no attempt in Federal Justice, as there is in Lawyer Morris Ernst's new book on the Supreme Court (TIME, Jan. 18), to take from the judiciary the ultimate sanction in U. S. life...