Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly as a space filler, possibly as an outburst of immature student rhetoric there appeared in yesterday's (April 24) CRIMSON the perennial complaint about traffic in Harvard Square. It is high time that this subject be dropped. It makes for senseless, complaining small talk of a third rate variety. This hand-flapping oh-dear, oh-dear attitude of regarding a congested corner is not only obsolete and impractical, but even sissy. By compulsory exercise regulations every undergraduate has become somewhat of an athlete. We are a community of youth. The vigour of a well-played game may be experienced...
...processing tax on raw cotton have necessitated higher prices, permitting the Japanese manufacturers to undersell us on our own domestic marekt. Under these circumstances they claim Japanese competition to be endangering the very existence of the industry, and have consequently filed, through the Cotton Textile Institute, a complaint with...
...York was not the only victim. When Milwaukee accepted a low bid on fire hoses, it was contended, the bidder suddenly found himself unable to deliver as no big rubber company would supply him at his price. On Attorney Babcock's recommendation, the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against the Rubber Manufacturers' Association, Rubber Code Authorities and 17 rubber companies including Goodyear, U. S. Rubber and Goodrich, for conspiracy in restraint of trade, price-fixing, customer classification, boycott and resale price maintenance...
Another grievance is that "Zionists have been buying up the land without restriction." The complaint is rather a strange one: why should there be restrictions on voluntary land-transactions in a country which has not adopted communism? But Great Britain has given up its traditions of individual liberty in the sphere of property rights, and has placed many a restriction in the way of land purchase by Jews (See Reports of H. M.'s Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine, and Trans-Jordan...
...other name, and so forth, down the pallid lists of the oleaginous concatenation of convalescing vitamins served at room temperature and garnished with the cadavers of the insect world. My gorge rises at the thought! I challenge any of the seven cross-sections to greater right to complaint. For the honor of the Elephants, it must be asserted that they have not been pampered with the edible...