Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case against John Baer was promptly dismissed. Planning to go to his draft board to start all over again, Baer still had one complaint: because legally he was the draftee who wasn't there, the Army would not pay him for his 35 days' service...
Fifteen thousand fight fans had no complaint last week over the fact that most experienced prize fighters have gone into the service. They thoroughly enjoyed seeing two scrappy kids, Newark's curly-haired Allie Stolz and Harlem's kinky-haired Beau Jack, fighting it out in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for a fling at the world's lightweight title. The title had, as a matter of fact, been abandoned that very day by Champion Sammy Angott-supposedly because of a badly battered hand...
...Reserves, has just returned from several months active duty in the Pacific area, and was hence in a position to observe the facts of many of the engagements. It was on this "inside dope" that he based one of the two points of his speech. The essence of this complaint was that accounts of U. S. disasters in the Pacific have been "twisted and played down" until they appear to the casual reader to have been actual victories. It has been previously observed by several sources, however, that the delay in making known some of the sinkins of American ships...
There was more than mere complaint in the address. Wendell Willkie, the man who won more votes on a Republican ticket than any previous presidential candidate, has left behind his record of foggy platitudes. No longer can he be labeled simply "Republican," with the overtones of Fishy Taftism. Willkie and the Old Guard have been estranged since his announced support of the President's foreign policy. After Monday's speech, even those tenuous bonds are finally shattered. The former "barefoot boy from Wall Street" has subjected Tory imperialism and Dollar Diplomacy to the most scathing public denunciation in recent years...
...stormed at one of the secretaries. After about 10 minutes, he was led into the presence of the dean. "It's either the graders or me, Dean Holbrook," he shouted incoherently. "One of us has got to go." The dean finally managed to clam Grouser and hear his complaint. "You obviously aren't acquainted with the technical workings of the grading system. Why don't you go to see Professor Hubbard, the head of the Managerial reports?" Grouser didn't feel like being shuttled between offices, but he did want to give this Hubbard a piece of his mind. "Thanks...