Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more doctors will be in constant attendance every school day except Saturday between the hours of 8.30 and 5.30 o'clock at the new University medical center on Holyoke Street, recently opened to students in the University. Announcement of this innovation comes after considerable, complaint of the short office hours kept in previous years by the medical department in Wadsworth House...
...host of others, put a new light on the precipitous departure of Samuel Insull to Paris (from Quebec, aboard the Empress of Britain) and the flight of his brother, Martin John Insull to Canada. In Chicago the state's legal department opened an office to hear the complaints of investors, and set to examining extradition laws. But no criminal complaint had been filed and Insull loyalists insisted that the brothers expatriated themselves solely to avoid annoyance, petty litigation that would lead nowhere...
Taken as a whole the class of 1936 can find little cause for complaint in the four year period which is destined to shape their undergraduate career. True, they enter College at a time when family and University budgets are severely restricted to essentials, a condition which necessitates a definite curtailment of extra, nonetheless agreeable conveniences. But this handicap, if such indeed it can honestly be termed, is far offset by two notable advantages. Today, as Freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such...
Ballyhoo of 1932. "As clean and wholesome as the magazine!" promises Comedian Bob Hope from an upper box labeled "Complaint Department" a moment before Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled...
...Herald & Examiner pictured Banker Dawes as having to begin his career anew, returning to the day in 1902 when as an able young man of 37 he organized Central Trust Co. of Illinois. Under his guidance it grew into the Loop's third largest bank. The chief complaint of Banker Dawes, 67 last fortnight, is that he can no longer obtain underslung hubble-bubble pipes. Though the institution he built may be razed, Banker Dawes could probably take with him at least $50,000,000 of old Central Republic deposits if he decided to found a new bank...