Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio's complaint is that ASCAP charges too much for its music (5% of a broadcaster's net receipts). Warner Brothers says that it asks too little. ASCAP's President Gene Buck stated last week that all the important songwriters were bound personally to the Society by new five-year contracts, that Warner Brothers' experiment would depend on finding new talent. But ASCAP was obviously perturbed. Its strength has been its ability to dictate terms without thought of rivalry. An ASCAP rival is what Radio has long been wanting...
...have seen this ceremony performed hundreds of times. I have not witnessed a single case in which the victim uttered a word of resistance or complaint. This punishment was legal and considered a part of army discipline...
...contributing to the Mark Twain Centennial, Librarian Asa Don Dickinson of Brooklyn College made public the full text of a letter written by the humorist in 1905. Librarian Dickinson, then of the Brooklyn Public Library, had forwarded a complaint by the young woman in charge of his Children's Department that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were mischievous and deceitful examples for children. Replied Author Twain...
...library announced recently by President Harold Willis Dodds. For some time hailed as the home of "professional football" and big-time athletics, Princeton has wisely chosen to construct a new library rather than replace her notoriously old gymnasium, about which there has been so much under-graduate and alumni complaint. This action should go for toward discouraging much unjust criticism which has been directed toward that university. -Yale News
...Complaint from West Coast...