Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seek to reduce wages by paying their reporters on a space-rate basis. Last week in Cleveland one hundred men & women staff writers of the Plain Dealer, News and Press formed an Editorial Employes Association, voted to send a representative to the final code hearings in Washington. Their complaint: "Between exorbitant tolls of syndicates and press services and the unionized requirements of the mechanical trades, newspaper editorial employes have been the most notoriously exploited of all producer groups. The outworn creed of rugged individualism has been enough. The sorry story is that this creed has meant for them a drugged...
Tired of hotel life Mrs. Johnson took a non-paying job on NRA's Consumers Advisory Board, chairmanned by Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. A quiet, cheery, unassuming person in simple clothes, the General's wife works in the complaint division sits in on many a code hearing...
...while she was visiting in Pittsburgh. Donora, Union Steel's new works, was named after the bride and W. H. Donner, Union Steel's president (first father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt). Considering the other projects which Andrew Mellon had afoot in those years her later complaint that he devoted too much time to business, too little to her, sounds genuine. The marriage lasted only ten years. The divorce was bitterly but privately fought in the courts. Through his friend Boies Penrose, Andrew Mellon had special laws enacted to keep the trial from, becoming
Although there has been some undergraduate complaint of certain features of the Summer School, an investigation has revealed that faults that exist in the teaching staff and the food are not to be blamed on the Summer School authorities...
...publishing business. Following graduation (1926) he went to Oxford for two years, cherished two ambitions: to teach school and to deal in rare books. (He has a remarkable library of earthy Americana.) Eventually he was persuaded to enter the Curtis company. He worked hard, without enthusiasm but without complaint. He peddled his grandfather's magazines from door to door, went to Manhattan and sold advertising, returned to Philadelphia to work in the circulation department at a desk among rows & rows of others. Enthusiasm and aptitude grew apace. Last week Gary Bok, 28, found himself occupying his late grandfather...