Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years -an irreducible minimum in the reaction from the worst depression the world has ever seen-is indeed testimony to the virility of the principles which Lincoln enunciated. Those principles assure that [the Republican Party] will be recalled to power. . . . The people determined the election. We have no complaint. As Americans we will continue wholeheartedly to do our part in promoting the well-being of the country...
...putting their stamp of disapproval on a system of search for lost books which involved irresponsible undergraduate ransacking of House rooms, Widener officials have acted swiftly and wisely. But it is inevitable that the proceedings should evoke a reasonable complaint that the practice in question was ever allowed to be put into use, that there was no central responsible authority to prevent or at least to advise against its inauguration...
From a strictly legal point of view, the undergraduate has no grounds for complaint. The University owns his room; the tenancy contract stipulates no guarantee against search. And if there were desperate need for such a general search, if it were carried on by an officer of the University in the presence of the tenant there could be no justifiable ground for any objection. But the example of other Houses demonstrates that lost books can be successfully recovered without recourse to the general search. It is, furthermore, inexcusable to permit irresponsible undergraduates covertly to ransack a fellow House member...
...complaint of Dr. Mary Dunne Walsh last December Miss O'Brien was haled before the New York State Bureau of Securities. She refused to answer questions. The Bureau enjoined her from further activity and a receiver was appointed. Last week she said: "The charge came down on me like a ton of brick. I was overwhelmed...
Absent from New York, Bishop Francis John McConnell had not given explicit permission to use his name, but he voiced no complaint. Later Rev. Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee (Presbyterian missions) wrote the Groups that he had been listed "by mistake." Nevertheless, the array of sponsors showed that what was once "Buchmanism" and is now The Groups has at last found wide favor in high places...