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Word: complaint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only legitimate complaint of the Freshmen is that their class has been singled out to bear the brunt of the new system of assignments. Because of the widely varying composition of the Houses at present, some men will find that they have been put into a House where their own set is submerged, and that they are, in a sense, martyrs to the ideal of the cross section. This situation, however, will correct itself another year, and the outcome should be in healthy contrast to the situation of the last two years, with its "social deserts" and large-scale proselytism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN IN THE HOUSES | 5/17/1933 | See Source »

...effect that the Government ought to maintain international good faith by paying foreign holders of its bonds the equivalent of gold in paper dollars. But when May payments on billions & billions of dollars worth of public and private debt fell due at home last week, there was no real complaint against the nationwide default on the "gold clause" which followed, no serious suggestion that U. S. debtors pay their domestic creditors a paper dollar premium in lieu of gold. Bondholders took their coupons to their banks and got 100? on the dollar-in currency. Those who asked for gold were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Honor & Gold | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

When one Farnham Fox, a tuba player, got out of his Bayside, N. Y. apartment three months early, he offered an excuse-complaint not new to landlords-a plague of insects. Last fortnight in Flushing's Municipal Court, Musician Fox's suing landlords submitted this letter which they had sent him: "The insects you complained of are crickets and no doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Crickets v. Tuba | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

Whether or not the closing of Shepherd is a direct result of the examination of the Commissioner of Public Safety could not be ascertained. On March 12, the building was inspected because of a complaint which had been lodged a short time ago, and was found to be unsafe. The University was notified that it must undertake drastic changes within thirty days or it would be compelled to vacate the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHEPHERD HALL TO BE JETTISONED BY COLLEGE OFFICIALS | 4/21/1933 | See Source »

...Papen fought for hours against the proclamation of Adolf Hitler's Jewish boycott. In the end they rushed to old President von Hindenburg. Baron von Neurath offered his resignation, was finally persuaded to withdraw it. Old Paul agreed absolutely with his two Nationalist ministers and added a private complaint of his own : he had just learned that his name had appeared without authorization on anti-Jew proclamations in Munich. Like a naughty schoolboy Handsome Adolf was summoned to the Feldmarschall's office, and Handsome Adolf meekly backed down. He was willing to call off the boycott, he realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: All Fools' Day | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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