Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscription to TIME, as a Christmas present. I thought it about the best news periodical I had ever seen, but after reading some of the crank letters you print I think I should engage some of the writers to show you how to run your magazine. The only complaint I have is misleading advertising...
Machine After Men. Second complaint against the new chairman's junketing was that he had failed to organize his national headquarters properly before starting out. That charge was undisputed, even by John Hamilton. Unable to do two jobs at once, he decided to get the wheels of his machine turning before he had adequately manned the controls. Result was that when he returned to Chicago late last month he found things in a serious mess. Presenting the other side of Pundit Lawrence's picture, Scripps-Howard's Columnist Raymond Clapper reported from Chicago: "A vast organization, scattered...
...implication many a New Deal policy, attacking other policies and performances not with specific proposals for reform but with generalities about economy, common sense, freedom and the American way. The only New Deal measure he had condemned specifically was the "cockeyed" corporation surplus tax. His only vigorous general complaint had been against New Deal spending. What he was offering the country, concluded wiseacres, was a cut-rate New Deal...
...Cartan was so polite that he bowed to the photographer politely from the middle of the street and was almost run down by an auto. He had a young lady translate for him and she asked the photographer to take movies of Professor Corrado Gini. Gini had a complaint that all the delegates here probably have; that his paper was considerably different in meaning when it reached the newspapers...
...Spending 'like this is not waste. It would spell future waste if we did not spend for such things now. . . . On my entire trip, though I asked the question dozens of times, I heard no complaint against the character of a single works relief project...