Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alighting at Naval Headquarters extremely vexed, Mr. Robison tried to lodge complaint, was pushed in the chest by a Japanese civilian wearing a police armband who shouted: "I am a Japanese. Don't!" Previously the Japanese Consul General had given official assurances that there were now no more Japanese "armband police" in Shanghai, but four of them set upon Mr. Robison, striking him with their fists while Japanese bluejackets laughed...
...Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals entered a complaint against Captain Edwyn Sandys Dawes, M. S. H., and Captain Ronald H. Fox, secretary of the hunt, for cruelty to a tame deer. Last week a magistrate heard the case. Prosecutor James Dale Cassels, M. P., charged that Bridget was terrified and trembling from cold when she was rescued. He quoted Captain Fox as saying...
...those which eliminate activities causing such superfluous expense as the baseball trip are most to be desired. True, expensive training trips by baseball and hockey squads during vacation periods have long been accepted drains on Princeton's athletic cupboard and only a few have lifted up their heads in complaint. But it seems that this year when utility becomes the true determining factor, the baseball trip is to be lopped off, as unnecessary, and we might add, extravagant and point-less...
...make more use of them. . . ." This year "scholastic aptitude" determined by tests rose 1.1%. Special group classes have been formed to train those found deficient in some courses. Many students did more work than was expected of them. Many faculty members also worked "overtime." Few complained. Chief complaint from students was that they were "advised" to do more work than they had time for. To them President Hutchins offered another bit of advice : "You have freedom to go as slow or as fast as you wish. The University attaches no disgrace to a longer stay in the college than...
...Washington, Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney grumbled against "commercialization," filed a complaint with the Federal Radio Commission against Station WRC (National Broadcasting Co.) whose Christmas broadcasts included a reference to the Star of Bethlehem as symbolic of what electric light companies had to sell...