Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro press rejoiced when Congressman Mitchell filed his suit. Arthur W. Mitchell was out to end the iniquitous Jim Crow system, they crowed in their lead stories. But when newshawks talked to him in Washington they found out differently. His complaint, it seemed, was not with the South's segregation laws, but with the roads that provide inferior accommodations for segregated Negroes when the laws specify equal accommodations. Indeed, he said, he could find no fault with some of the roads that do business in the South...
...policy. Certainly James M. Landis, Dean-designate of the Law School was not a man whom the "Wall Street bankers who now help administer Harvard's finances" would have chosen. The list of professors, and instructors of leanings decidedly to the Left of Center could be extended indefinitely. Indeed, complaint has been heard that the University has staffed its Social Departments with too many men of Leftist inclinations, but the main point to be observed is the utter folly of such charges as Mr. Lamb's ill-considered attack. Bitter wars of words can do no harm to an institution...
...name of its former Prince and King. Few men in high office seem to remember how much service he gave the Empire as Prince of Wales, endlessly traveling to important markets to help English business and to win friends for his country. Without one public word of complaint or bitterness he gave in to the appeals of his Ministers and, abdicating, left England for three months of loneliness abroad. Only people in other countries can tell the English how much the gallant "Prince of Sales" did for them and how much brighter he made the Coronation by his friendliness towards...
After a perusal of Mr. Cummings' 47-page complaint, Wall Street cynics opined last week that Aluminum Co. of America was being prosecuted for making money...
...complaint, however, the Government went far beyond allegations of monopoly and restraint of trade in the U. S., charging Alcoa with virtually rigging the entire world market, through its interests or the interests of its affiliates in foreign aluminum. Motive for this was alleged to be the company's desire to keep foreign prices high enough to discourage invasion of its U. S. preserve. Fifty years ago aluminum sold for $8 per Ib. Today it is 20?. Singled out by Attorney General Cummings was the fact that Alcoa hiked the price 1? last March just about the time...