Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Anderson, a tight-lipped disciplinarian with a hard but twinkling eye, perfectly appreciates that the moderate whoopee requirements of Tommy Atkins on leave are all but irrepressible. Last week Sir John continued to maintain a firm laissez-faire stand toward London night life despite a great twittering of complaint from the shires that today night club "harpies and hussies" are again preying on the morals and emptying the purses of apple-cheeked subalterns...
...work was promptly undone last week by developments at University of Wisconsin. Into the office of the dean of men irately marched Madison's Police Chief William H. McCormick. Chief McCormick threatened to arrest the members of Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...
...Complaints. Railroad men have many a complaint against the economic conspiracy which has ruined their business. One big complaint is against the tremendous rise in taxes and wages which they have to pay. In 1916 taxes took 4.4% of gross operating revenues. By 1938 the tax percentage had gone up to 9.5%, $340,781,954. Wages took 28.3% of gross revenues in 1916. But in 1938 employes got close to 50% of the roads' $3,565,000,000 gross...
...overdue rate row is being kicked up by husky moose-hunting Luther Mason Walter, operating trustee of Chicago Great Western, one of the chronically anemic roads in the great midwestern bankruptcy belt. Mr. Walter's complaint: the Midwestern roads are not getting their fair share of charges on transcontinental hauls, get a lean, unprofitable cut while the roads at the eastern and western ends take the big slices...
...wrote a letter to Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., saying that they understood that big holding company was about to buy 125,000 shares of stock from its Michigan subsidiary, Consumers Power Co. Mr. Eaton righteously set out a plan to disprove Wendell Willkie's chronic complaint that investors will not buy utilities securities: his Otis & Co. would gladly pay a price "substantially in excess" of the $28.25 that C. & S. was going...