Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Santa Anita and Golden Gate ring up the curtain on California's winter racing season, every stall will be filled. Santa Anita's purses will be larger (averaging $20,000 a day), will therefore attract more high-grade horses. But an increasing number of California turfmen complain that Santa Anita has snubbed their homebreds to make room for big-name Eastern stables. For them, Golden Gate will be a horseman's heaven...
...best bits were the comic passages: he ridiculed the Republican leadership for opposing many defense measures before World War II began, for saying "There will be no war"-and for claiming now that he had failed to build up national defense. He said, scorn sharpening his voice: "Today they complain that this Administration has starved our armed forces, that our Navy is anemic, our Army puny, our air force piteously weak. This is a remarkable somersault...
Freshmen who complain about the fare in the Union today should remember the following statement which Mistress Eaton made while she was on the witness stand...
...public, which considers him as securely settled in his job as Winston Churchill is in his. Critics call him a dictator, point out that the Government would be in a frightful mess if all the Ministries were run like Beaverbrook's. That does not worry the Beaver. They complain that he has put industrial leaders in control of supplies used in their industries. The Beaver says his men are efficient. They complain that he has stolen publicity from other Ministries with stunts such as his aluminum-collecting campaign, is tight with legitimate ministerial news. The Beaver says...
...Manila and flatly declared that the Tydings-McDuffie Act meant what it said: the Philippines were to be cut loose in 1946. Wiggling Mr. Quezon suggested an international conference to guarantee the neutrality of his defenseless islands. This summer it was reported that he intended to visit Washington to complain that Commissioner Sayre had trespassed on his rights. Last week he had his resident commissioner in Washington issue a statement that his Government intends to buy at least $2,000,000 worth of commodities in the U. S. every year...