Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago's fiscal fix last week began to involve the state of Illinois, which derives 60% of its income from the city. Long-legged Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson went to Chicago with fire in his eye. His complaint: Cook County owes the state $30,000,000 in back taxes. Illinois defaulted on a $300,000 waterway bond issue due Jan. 1, averted serious trouble only by persuading bondholders not to present their certificates for redemption. The state may _ be' unable to meet soldiers' bonus bond's due Aug. i. or to pay $4,856,602 due the Cook County School...
Since these facts were not concealed, Assistant Attorney General Washburn replied there was no fraud in selling the bonds. Significant seemed the fact that no holder of the bonds joined in the complaint, for while the redeemable feature may be unusual it still leaves a speculative interest to the issue...
...Complaints about examinations are usually directed against questions which presuppose knowledge which the student does not feel he should be required to have gained in the course. Only occasionally is the complaint directed against questions on the ground that they are too general. The English 72 examination reprinted in part elsewhere on this page affords a striking example of this last type of examination. There is nothing petty in any of the required questions. All are manifest attempts to allow the student to tell what he knows about the five poets studied in the course...
Such an impression is highly unfortunate, and strenuous measures of some kind should certainly be taken to correct it. Yet it seems hardly fair to put the blame wholly upon individuals, when the sweeping generality of the complaint is in itself proof that the fault lies rather with the institution. Obviously, men are being sent from the Law School out into the legal world with no knowledge of the truly important functions of the lower courts and a consequent lack of respect for the Bench...
Other Objections. Against the transfer legislation, to which there was the least general objection, Drys raised a strong complaint: they did not want the management of industrial alcohol left with the Treasury, as the Williamson bill and the Wickersham report called for. They felt that as a source of 'legger leakage this, too, should be under the Department of Justice. Industrialists legitimately using alcohol threaten a revolt if their raw material is taken from the Treasury. An ingenious compromise has been devised to hold both in line: the Secretary of the Treasury could issue industrial alcohol permits only after...