Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last man to be jailed for contempt of the Senate was Oilman Harry Sinclair in 1929. Oilman Sinclair, however, was prosecuted, sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the District of Columbia Supreme Court on the Senate's complaint...
Like most City News legmen, "Boss"' Corrigan, who started as an office boy, rarely wrote a story in his 20 years. He gathers his data from the complaint room, from the little Press table in the court room, from innumerable policemen, lawyers, court attendants, judges of his acquaintance. He makes copious notes, descends to his dungeon desk and telephones his office. Far downtown near Park Row one of four lightning-fast rewrite men takes Reporter Corrigan's tale, whips it into a precise, minutely detailed, colorless but accurate story. Page by page it is teletyped to the newspaper...
...crowded day. But she found time to save an old pal from committing suicide by taking him into her bed. Oliver found them together. Donka tried to patch it up, but Oliver had been hit too hard. Besides he was dying from an obscure stomach complaint. Operated on too late, he kept calling for Donka. When her picture was finished she hurried to him, but Oliver was dead...
...flight; that Lindbergh's return to New York, especially his clever treatment of the innumerable stories released concerning him and his mother, was, and still is, considered a masterpiece in the art of handling publicity? I have nothing against him for this, it shows good business sense. The only complaint that I and so many others have is his continual hypocrisy about the whole affair of being in the public eye, his affected and transparent dislike for publicity, and his over-emphasis of the altruistic motive, as exemplified in the air-mail contracts wire. It is only too bad that...
...Barring an extensive program of public works, this is true. He goes on to point out that one of the chief reasons for the failure of demand for industrial loans is that potential consumer demand has been stifled by unreasonably high prices, as for steel and building materials. His complaint here, and it is a very real one, should be directed against the NRA. He may be quite right that a potential boom lurks around the corner in the form of a low-cost housing...