Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hence my complaint about the following misleading statements (TIME, Aug. 7) about the current squabble between New York nightclubs and Mayor LaGuardia's bookkeepers: "At the Stork, the check is usually placed face down on the table, with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded...
...They die quietly, these American boys-without fuss or complaint, perhaps muttering about 'Mom' just before...
...Master's Voice. In Lafayette, Ind.. Police Sergeant Cecil Baker, acting on a complaint that a strange dog would not get out of a car, recognized the dog, pulled him out, phoned his owner, Alvin Fay. Said Mr. Fay: "Put the dog on the phone and I'll talk to him." The Sergeant put the dog on the phone, overheard Fay say: "What are you doing up there, Pat? Get right on home." Pat went right on home...
Member after member rose in Canada's House of Commons to air a chronic complaint: Parliament is underpaid...
Saving the Women. To keep Lockheed women at work, Dr. Dakin now has a Woman's Clinic far removed from the plant's first-aid headquarters. To the Clinic comes any woman whose complaint "is thought by the patient, her supervisor or her doctor to be due to the cumulative effect of her work." Her most successful remedies: 1) a transfer (e.g., giving a fat girl a sedentary job); 2) arranging for variety in monotonous work; 3) lessons in avoiding muscle strain; 4) reassurance that the job in question does not cause sterility...