Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lynch had a variorum account. She marched into Woman's Court, declared that Mrs. Brucer and Mr. Lynch had "gone to a cabaret and gotten drunk." She charged alienation of affections and adultery. The Court permitted a disorderly conduct complaint to be lodged against the Dry crusader, later mollified the Frenchwoman with Mrs. Brucer's promise never again to see Mr. Lynch...
...conduct of Senior elections in the past few years has not been satisfactory. The chief complaint is that too few vote. In the 1933 balloting, for example, 400 voted in the first election, and only 353 out of a class of 650, in the second...
...administration, on the other hand, will feel that its moves have been perfectly reasonable, and that students have small ground for complaint. The surplus was large, they will grant, but last year was the first that saw the House Plan in full operation. There was nothing upon which to base estimates, and when the profit is considered in terms of single meals, the margin was remarkably small. Moreover, when the surplus became definitely obvious, reductions in rates were effected which would prevent any more than a nominal profit. They will argue, finally, that the money had been...
...Stinsons and the Lycoming engines that pull them. Old guard Avco men said that Cord was a poor transport man, that his Century Lines lost money, that he would cut pilots' pay below the minimum of safety and efficiency. (He had labor troubles with the Century pilots.) Another complaint: Cord had studded the Avco ranks with spies, some of whom spread the word that the employes "had better play ball with the Cord crowd because Cord s going to be the boss." The spies were weeded out, fired...
...program as a memorial to Patron Clark's son, William Andrews III, who was killed last spring in an airplane crash. The orchestra, the audience knew, was Clark's second son. He founded it in 1919, trailed it on its tours, in true paternal fashion made no complaint even when it ran into debt last year to the tune...