Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applications are being field by members of the Freshman Class for rooms in the Houses next year, there is a repetition of the earlier complaint against the high prices now demanded. Since the applications have not yet been tabulated, it is impossible to discover how many men will be prevented from enrolling in the Houses through financial reasons. It is certain that there will be some...
...enough the most abusive articles came almost exclusively from the Wet press. I say curiously because I should have thought the Wets would have derived more encouragement from the report and the separate statements of the commissioners than the Drys. ... In the past there has been much well-founded complaint of the extreme intolerance of the Prohibitionists. This peculiar characteristic of late appears to have been appropriated by their opponents. . . . Apparently a large body of antiProhibitionists expected the Commission to find a way for them to secure liquor with ease and were enraged when we failed...
Second stop was a tax administration office with which Harun-al-Carol had no cause for complaint. Third and fourth stops were a casualty reception depot and another police station, both closed for the day. In little black books the aides entered the names of all delinquent officials for immediate dismissal. Back to the palace went King Carol, feeling he had done something to earn his night's repose...
...complaint frequently heard in the little Italian hill-town that nothing exciting ever happened there. When indefatigable Lawyer Belotti arranged for the visit of an opera company everyone licked his chops, looked forward longingly. When the company arrived the town went wild. Business boomed, stood still or went backward, according to whether you were...
Lest the Treasury's embargo look like a political discrimination against Russia, the State Department last week instructed its consuls throughout the world to report on convict-made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...