Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brittingham Jr. of the famed Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation wanted to turn out the management of Fourth National Investors, a $22,000,000 trust run by Fred Y. Presley, who also promoted and is still president of National Investors, Second National Investors, Third National Investors. There was little complaint about Mr. Presley's investment record, which is better than the sorry average (TIME, March 9). Though questioning management relations between Mr. Presley's National Investors and Mr. Presley's Fourth National, the committee was most disturbed by the fact that Fourth National stock sells for far less...
Like all institutions that make any attempt to limit their own bigness, the fields of concentration, with their exclusive-sounding quotas, have been criticized for placing obstacles in the way of would-be concentrators. The cause for this complaint is purely superficial, and the limitation of the field has so far failed to be in any way a barrier to the freedom so necessary in choosing a field of concentration. Friendly influences and external pressure being what they are, the university often recognizes an obviously bad choice when it sees one, and in such cases the student is gently...
Since the University has made no effort to freeze into a permanent mould the relative size of the departments, there is no cause for complaint about the harshness of the quota system. Many departments have already increased their quotas, bowing to popular demand, and it is hopeful that similar reorganization will constantly take place in accordance with current preferences. The quotas are set mostly for administrative purposes alone, and the Freshman in good standing who has the conviction of his choice need have no fear of the specter of a departmental lockout...
...Herr Furtwängler made in Berlin four years ago when he referred to U. S. orchestras as "pet puppies which one keeps without inner necessity." Others pronounced him a slave to Nazidom, objected because he had been slow to protest when Jewish musicians were exiled from Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State Opera. A group of New Yorkers under Ira A. Hirschmann forthwith canceled their Philharmonic subscriptions, threatened to stir up a general boycott...
...plan will be voted upon by Radio stockholders in April. Presumably the Class A holders have no complaint, as their stock was bought with the understanding that the company could call it at $55 plus dividends. The Class B holder had to do some arithmetic before deciding whether justice had been done to him. His $22.50 of accrued dividends were gone forever. His new preferred paid only $4.20 a year ($3.50 for the full share, 70? for the one-fifth share), against $5 for his present stock. On the other hand, he might get the $4.20, for the Class...