Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charter subscriber. First complaint. You refer to Wayne B. Wheeler as "high salaried." Wasn't. Got $8,000 a year. All he'd take...
...past of these two halls. Massachusetts, the older of the pair and the oldest building now standing in the University, has perhaps the less eventful history. It was erected in 1720 at the expense of the Province of Massachusetts to meet the demands of the housing problem. Complaint was made that "a considerable number of students were obliged to take lodgings in the town of Cambridge for want of accomodations in the College", and to please the collegiate commuters of the day, the building was erected substantially as it now stands. Used variously as a dormitory and general college hall...
...Back in Rapid City, S. Dak., President Coolidge heard the complaint of a group of Indians from Quapaw, Okla., who said they had lost $60,000,000 worth of oil royalty rights through the acts of one-time (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall...
...have been a subscriber of "TIME" since the beginning of "TIME" and I dislike very much to enter the ranks of the disgruntled, for I have no complaint to make, but merely wish to state a preference. Re the coons, if we must have coon let us have Rebecca and ignore the Parisian species. Still, if you do need something with which to fill space, I prefer either one of the coons as a subject to the uninteresting, distorted views of the eminent Baltimore Sun reporter* on our worthy Chief Executive [TIME, June 20]. . . . C. V. LEMEN Wichita Falls...
Loans. Meanwhile the credit-system by which the farmers were to be loaned money enough for rehabilitation purposes has apparently existed chiefly on paper. Reported Mr. Speers: "One hears on all sides the complaint that the recently created farm credit organizations will not work. The periods of the loans, it is asserted, are too short and the interest rates too high. As a matter of fact, it can be said on the very highest authority that less than a dozen of the thousands made destitute in Louisiana have applied to this agency for relief. In Arkansas the number is said...