Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar complaint against the New Deal is that it has virtually wrecked the Civil Service system by loading deserving Democrats into all sorts of good jobs. A prime statistic: in three years Roosevelt, Farley & Co. have made 150,000 straight political appointments, have reduced Federal employment under the merit system from 80% to 63%. A prime reason: in setting up emergency agencies the Administration short-circuited the Civil Service to get men quickly...
...Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that the Government stepped in and mildly recommended in renewing the charter that "the staff should be free from any control by the Corporation over their private lives." Another standing complaint against B. B. C. is the dullness of its Sunday fare. At the Government's suggestion, Sir John promised to seek "a better balance and a more attractive layout of the Sunday programs...
...abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal Art Jury's most mercurial member, who well knows that sandpaper is not good for the texture of marble. Sculptor Donato forthwith ran to the office of Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, puffed out his complaint. No art expert, Mayor Wilson gave Sculptor Donato authority to complete the cleaning of the two-ton Washington statue...
...past 20 years Handy has devoted most of his time to his publishing business, though he has managed to turn out over 60 blues. His current complaint is that popular music has become too mechanical, that radio and cinema have proven big blights. As for "swing" music he says: ''It is the music I was playing 20 years ago, only with more brass and less rhythms...
...giving money to charity. In Brooklyn, N. Y. last week one Anna Seigel went to the police with a story of how she had paid $200 as a mitzvah for her paralyzed daughter and was now wondering if she had been swindled. Upon investigation of Mrs. Seigel's complaint the Brooklyn district attorney declared that the police had turned up "one of the most novel and extensive rackets for mulcting the poor and afflicted people which has ever come to my attention...