Word: complaint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wall Street liked Mr. Meyer, the insurgent farm members of Congress did not. When his confirmation comes before the Senate, it was predicted that all the old hue and cry about turning the Federal Reserve Board over to Wall Street would be raised against him. This complaint, plus the fact that he is a Jew of French extraction, has in the past seriously retarded able Mr. Meyer's political progress...
...three months the wife's attorney files her complaint at the court house. If her husband cooperates with her-and most of them do-he has al ready accepted service of the complaint, arranged for another lawyer to represent him, to plead nolo contendere. On hearing day the wife, her lawyer, the hus band's lawyer and the wife's witness who swears to her three months' state residence march up the 13 steps of the court house, climb to the second floor, enter the judge's chambers. The average hearing does not take more...
...accident, he was enraged. The dog was Sunnybank Jean, 10-yr.-old "heroine" of books and articles from which Terhune's royalties have exceeded $9,000, he said. He took the whole Norris family to the police station. Before the village justice he swore out a complaint of malicious mischief against them. When Mr. Norris paid him $100, he withdrew the complaint, allowed them to go back home to Detroit. Author Terhune turned the money over to the Pompton Lakes policeman & fireman's fund. "It was all very messy," said...
...complaint is often made that American motion pictures are hindering the spread of the Gospel. Contrast that statement with the fact that Ben Hitr, The King of Kings and The Ten Commandments were barred in China on the grounds that they taught Christianity...
...courage, three-fourths of 1% of the nerve, one-half of 1% of the force and power and one-quarter of 1% of the backbone of almost any other country?England, for instance?struggling along carrying gigantic debts and with millions of unemployed, without a murmur of complaint...