Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preachers who inveigh against those who take the name of the Lord in vain had no complaint last week against those who, without blasphemous intent, took 1,060 futile oaths. Complaint belonged properly to Federal Judge John Percy Nields of Wilmington. Del. He had to shuffle through the oath-takers' 1,060 affidavits in order to decide whether the National Labor Board could legally force an employer to let Labor Board agents hold a union election in his plant...
...until two o'clock Sunday. When the finals in an examination like Government 1 take place the following Monday, as was the case this year, the system works considerable hardship, which is accentuated by the last minute rush for the texts, none too numerous in any case. The same complaint holds true of the House libraries concerning their Sunday morning closure...
This story, which assumed international importance opened in January 1933 when Normano was arrested in his Cambridge home on a complaint sworn out by German Consul Kurt von Tippleskirch, for implications in a Berlin swindle. Normano was identified by German authorities as Isaac Lewin who had promoted a $750,000 counterfeiting job in Germany and then field to South America...
...materials on which Japanese industrial economy is dependent, they appeared none too eager last week to crimp their own exports. In Australia the Melbourne Argus (which last week won a University of Missouri School of Journalism honor medal, see p. 22) put it bluntly: "Australia has no complaint against Japan who is a good customer for her wheat and wool. Australia, as is natural from her geographical position, has found good markets in the Far East and unless international rivalries are pursued to the point of national suicide that trade must not be discouraged. The poor people of both England...
...just an old-fashioned schoolmarm? Chorus: That's just it! Aldermanic President Deutsch promised to take the matter up with his friend the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education. Next day the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education let it be known that since no complaint had been made against Miss Egan's character or scholarship, he did not consider an objection to her personality very serious. That night Hunter's administrative committee voted to recommend Miss Egan for the deanship. The Board of Higher Education generally follows the recommendations of the administrative committee...