Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charges. Said the columnists: "Although the President is waiting for the Germans to shoot first . . . there has been shooting already. . . . The interest of the Germans is to avoid ... an incident. It is perfectly possible that the submarine was in fact sunk, and that the Germans have suppressed all public complaint. . . . The Navy ... is fully ready to act. ... It is far from improbable that preventive occupation of the Azores and the Cape Verdes, or the garrisoning of Iceland will be ordered in the near future...
Captain James Roosevelt, observer extraordinary, showed up in Cairo last week, looking a little peaked and touched with the popular complaint known as Gyppie (for Egyptian) Tummy-a light form of dysentery. Part of his peakedness came from the fact that he had just been on a remarkable desert march and had his baptism of fire...
...Freshman Commons food costs $8.50 a week, and the chief complaint of the Tiger Kittens, ironically enough, is that they are rushed through their meals in "eight minutes flat as a maximum...
Once back in Chicago, however, Congressman Mitchell wheeled around and turned around, jumped Jim Crow with a vengeance. The Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Pullman Co. found themselves on the receiving end of a $50,000 suit. Further, he filed a complaint with ICC. Last week, four years and seven days after his ejection from the Pullman, the complaint was upheld by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, which made it plain that the railroads would have to provide equal accommodations for blacks and whites...
...chief complaint which the News had to make was that when the anti-Eli movies were shown in Forest City (that's what they call New Haven) theatres, all the local high school girls giggled and snickered...