Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eminent faculty that stands far in front of any other university, but it is taught by a faculty that makes personal friends of all students in the division. Mixed in with the almost unanimous praise there is but one serious grievance, that of the present tutorial administration. This complaint is limited only to Geology, as concentrators in Geography are well satisfied with their leisurely tutorial work...
...company like A.T. & T. the stockholder would undoubtedly have been informed of any important special charges against earnings. But an unscrupulous management could temporarily deceive its stockholders as to the profit trend. An official of another company using twelve-month reports, replying to a newshawk's complaint that the plan made it impossible for a stockholder to learn what his company earned in any given quarter, blandly declared: "That's the idea...
Like a country defaulting on its war debts, the faction of commuters now howling about their Dudley Hall dues has masked its cries in a cloud of pious self-righteousness, while imputing to Peregrine White designs of a sinister and distinctly un-American character. If the bill under complaint were in any way unfair, a voice of objection should certainly be raised. But since payment of the five dollar charge for the second semester was clearly pledged by the would-be defaulters, the imputation of skullduggery on the part of the Dudley committee is as absurd as it is false...
...protested. Some businessmen thought the tax bill was sound in aim. Many considered it half-baked but relatively harmless. Some expected to profit by it. And most of those who expected to be pinched by higher taxes were either resigned to their fate or convinced of the uselessness of complaint. Therefore only twice during last week's hearings were committee ears held close enough to the grindstone to be rubbed red by its rough contact...
...days later Mess Sergeant John Maresca rebutted this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...