Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William J. Bingham announced last Monday that a new policy of application and allocation which should remove many of the causes for complaint will be inaugurated next fall. Under the new system, similar to that successfully used by several other colleges, students will purchase application blanks rather than tickets, and they will have a better opportunity to make use of turn-ins. The new plan will be more flexible than the old, and will guarantee a higher percentage of satisfied customers. But it will not work by itself...
...comic strips. Evans was one of the Newspaper Guildsmen whose strike against J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record ended in the Record's collapse (TIME, Feb. 10). He was the only Negro reporter on the staff. As he walked the picket line, he thought hard about a complaint frequently heard among his people: Negroes are usually ridiculed and their way of life distorted in comics drawn by white...
...hours later, while police searched the roads for the man who had deliberately snuffed out four lives, a man walked up to the complaint desk in San Antonio's police headquarters. He was immaculately dressed, and he had a problem. "It seems that I am in a sort of a trance," he confided, stolidly. "I have a gun in my car. I think it has been fired. I don't remember...
Persuader. In Chicago, Merlin W. Griffith and his family of eight went to court with a bitter complaint: his landlord, trying to get him to move, was using a twelve-piece band in the small hours of the night...
...pictures wiped the smile off the Truman Doctrine. One showed Viennese workers and angry housewives massed before their old Imperial Palace; the sign they held aloft summed up their complaint in one German word which needed no English translation: "HUNGER...