Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Complaint of a "Complacent" Worker...
Aches & Pains. "Pain is a common symptom of psychoneurosis." When a pa tient announces that "she aches all over," Dr. Alvarez begins to suspect that she is a bundle of nerves. His suspicion is confirmed if she is unable to tell him her main complaint, grumbles about trivialities, trembles, answers his questions irrelevantly, fails to let him finish a sentence...
...Alabama's John P. Newsome, Birmingham radio wholesaler, arrived home with a bad case of food poisoning, spent his first three days in bed. But his telephone kept ringing, and Newsome believes he talked to all his 500,000 constituents those first 72 hours. He heard many a complaint, but he felt he had nothing to apologize for. The majority of his Alabama constituents are for Roosevelt 100%, applaud him in the newsreels. But they were glad Congress overrode Mr. Roosevelt on the anti-strike bill...
...Prime Minister's complaint was one of long standing. It went back to the British War Office's old prejudice against identifying military units smaller than armies or corps. The immediate cause of the Mackenzie King discontent was the procedure in announcing the invasion of Sicily. Told of the action the day it started, Canada's Prime Minister was requested to withhold any personal announcement about Canadian participation until midnight of the second...
...Lorillard Co. (Old Golds) has trip-hammered the claim that its cigarets contain less nicotine than others, ever since the Digest's tests a year ago showed this to be technically true. But the Digest now reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th...