Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the original demand that students be given a degree if drafted after four years' study has been granted, the would-be lawyers still have many a complaint to lodge against the authorities administering the plan, and last night formed a council headed by Richard L. Weinberg '43 to advance their protests and proposals...
...hurdle which should not prove insurmountable to economists conversant with Keynesian rabbit-out-of-the-hat economics, has been advanced against the proposal. Few students in Ec 41 have failed to feel that the experience of a dress rehearsal for the Senior thesis was worth while. Their sole complaint has been that the extra work was an unfair burden to impose on only part of the Juniors busy with review for divisionals. And there is the further gain that under the proposed plan not even sine cum laude candidates can slip out of Harvard without at least once having faced...
...across the Pacific, are the first units of a fleet of U.S. merchant ships bearing supplies for Russia. Some time during the next week or two they will presumably move into waters which are patrolled by Japan. These ships, said Tokyo, are embarrassing to Japan. But to a Japanese complaint last week Cordell Hull gave a cool answer. The U.S., said he, will stand by its historic policy of the freedom of the seas...
Balding, brooding little Gaston Henry-Haye, Vichyfrench Ambassador to Washington, dropped in at the State Department last week-ostensibly to register a complaint with Secretary Cordell Hull about the way the free press of the U.S. treats his country's leaders; actually to stress again that Pétain's collaboration was not quite material cooperation...
...bigger than, those with which he re-elects Franklin Roosevelt, the citizen believes Hitler means to conquer the world; is willing to risk war to help Britain win; would pay willingly twice his present taxes on luxuries like movies, tobacco and liquor; would put up without complaint with a general sales tax if the U.S. were at war; would cut his gasoline consumption by a third; would gladly train one day a week for home defense; would do this and much more if asked. But "he" is also a "she" in the U.S. when measured by the polls: the women...