Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anglicanism is the State Religion, differences betweeen High and Low Churchmen occasionally have violent repercussions upon the life of the people. In the U. S. where Protestant Episcopalians number only 2,000,000 their denominational dissensions mean far less. Not so, however, to the communicants themselves, as the Albany complaint demonstrated...
...Washington one D. B. Flohr, successor to the chauffeur who quit Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins because she made him work 17 hours a day (TIME, May 15), was asked if he had any such complaint. Cried Chauffeur Flohr: "Say! You can put this down. She's the sweetest little woman in the world to work...
...grave charges. Their trials took place on opposite edges of the continent. Their characters and cases were similarly antipodal. One was a member of an old and distinguished family, having a judge for a father, a university dean for a brother. The other was a shanty Irish agitator. Complaint against one was that he was a corrupt official. The other claimed that he was the victim of corrupt officialdom...
Another article which takes its cue from this side of the Charles is "College and the Poor Boy Is the Door Closing?" by R. T. Sharpe, secretary of Student Employment at Harvard. Probably the best essay is "A Squire's Complaint," by Walter Pritchard Eaton, the dramatic critic. Mr. Eaton raises his bitter pen against the defilers of our countryside, on the behalf of those urban people who desire to live in it. The government road-builders are shown to be the desecrators they are, and shoddy commercialism in excoriated. One would advise Mr. Eaton to give...
...with his duties. This obstacle, of course, cannot be removed at once, although the Adviser might easily be allowed more than the two free meals which they are at present permitted to take with their charges in the Union, without too heavily straining the University budget. Another reason for complaint is that the Advisers are too often men out of touch with the student's side of the elementary courses, and far too busy to devote the necessary time to him. This difficulty is gradually being obviated by the introduction of men who teach the Freshman courses...