Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME '. . . read with interest . . . liquor store . . . Cordials and Beverages, 201 East 44th St." On March 22 wrote U. S. District Attorney Tuttle: "... Complaint . . . referred . . . Federal Prohibition Administrator . . . investigation . . . report . . . this office . . . whether . . .violation . . . exists." On March 27 wrote U. S. Attorney Tuttle, " . . . advise . . . evidence . . . showing sale . . . premises 201 East 44th Street. . . . March 12, 1936 . . . collected now . . . possession . . . this office. . . . Case . . . tried . . . regular order. Rochester...
...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
...loudly warned against these holding companies, insisted their undercover activities were already blurring the I. C. C.'s merger map (TIME. Dec. 16). Last week Interstate Commerce Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman appeared as a witness before the House Committee to give specifications for starting the inquiry. His general complaint was that the I. C. C. could handle railroads but that it lacked any legal authority to deal with their financial alter egos which acquire rail stocks, scramble them together in defiance of the I. C. C. and, for all practical purposes, produce consolidations which...
...Chronic complaint of every southern cotton planter: his inability to keep Negroes working steadily on his place. He advances money for food and clothing to his black hands, only to have them run away before they have worked off their debt. If he attempts to hold them by force, he violates the anti-slavery amendment, is guilty of peonage...
...second example is the University's defense in their last letter that "they are not aware of any complaint ever having been received from the women regarding their wages." Of course, they have not complained and no one connected with labor problems expected them to. To complain usually means dismissal, and there is nothing a laboring man or woman fears so much as being fired. The specter of unemployment with rising bills and empty stomachs has made working people do far worse things than submit silently to an unjust wage. The University's giving this as an answer shows their...