Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other Manufactures; Trades. Services, Textiles & Clothing. Each now has its own administrator, who acts as a deputy to General Johnson. General Johnson personally takes over the fifth department: Compliance. Structure of the Compliance Board is based on 26 district officers of the Department of Commerce. Anyone who has a complaint to make against a code violator may go to his post office, procure a blank, file the charge with the district compliance officer. If he cannot settle the case it goes to a Divisional Administrator. If he cannot settle the case it goes to the National Compliance Board...
...stacatto, Joan Blondell's blondness and Ruby Keeler's senseless simper. The plot means nothing. You can see the show and understand it if you drop in while waiting for the subway. If you like spectacles, extravagance in settings and the aforementioned galaxy of stars, there should be no complaint with "Footlight Parade...
...glad to see that President Conant has appointed a Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas to deal with doubted legitimacy of Harvard's famous Veritas escutcheon. The baroque plaster and wood emblazoned over the Dunster House Library probably constitutes Complaint No. 1, as it is radically incorrect. When the original designers took their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol...
Goodyear's President Paul Weeks Litchfield was not particularly alarmed by the Commission's complaint. "The manufacture of special brand merchandise for large distributors is a common practice in most lines of manufacturing and merchandising," he remarked. "However, this Goodyear-Sears contract has for several years been the subject of a great deal of publicity and the objective of an anti-mail-order campaign directed at our dealer organization. We welcome this opportunity to have the facts aired and settled once and for all. . . . When the case comes up for hearing we expect to prove that...
From various parts of the country is coming the complaint that the left hand at Washington does not know what the right hand is doing...