Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against him will be four conservatives-Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler-and a Chief Justice who can surely be counted on to disapprove ill-advised radical action. Even if Justice Sanford should continue to be responsive to the arguments of progression, progressives will have a just cause of complaint if they are not well represented by the next appointments to the court. [For further discussion of the Minimum Wage decision see page...
...traveling court set up on an automobile is now visiting markets in Berlin to punish profiteers. Plain clothes policemen patrol the market place, and on finding that an excessive price has been charged, or on hearing any complaint they immediately arrest the offending dealer and take him before the court. Justice is meted out on the spot, and the result is that prices have been considerably reduced. The city officials hope that these courts will end the food riots which have resulted from the exorbitant demands made by the merchants...
...complaint of a British corner in rubber made in Congress produced diplomatic exchanges. The Brazilian ambassador announced the willingness of his country to cooperate' with the U. S. Department of Commerce in attracting American capital into the Brazilian rubber industry. Such proposed essays in business provide frequent topics of conversation beside the Potomac. It should be realized, however, that it takes many years to establish rubber plantations, and that in the light of the recent overproduction prospects for such a venture over the next decade are not promising. The great " rubber boom " in London in 1910 was followed...
...just that nations should reward those who sacrifice so much in their defence, and there is little complaint to make on this score. But how long has it been since a noted British scientist bitterly accused his government of casting its geniuses on the scrap-heap." His point is too fully confirmed by history; it is Turner who dies in poverty, not Wellington; Socrates who drinks the hemlock, not Pericles...
There is a seething undercurrent of discontent in Lisbon, and it is feared that the nation may be heading for another revolution. (The last one was attempted in 1921.) High cost of living is the principal cause of complaint. Though the workmen are earning good wages, they complain that they have to spend them all on food. The price of bread is said to have increased by 150 per cent, and other foodstuffs have been proportionately advanced...