Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart, quiet Judge William Henry Hastie, dean of Howard University School of Law in Washington, who is Secretary of War Stimson's adviser on Negro affairs, engineered the formation of the 99th. Many Negroes applauded his feat, but many squawked. Their complaint: segregation of the 99th. Until Negro cadets went to the same air schools, joined the same squadrons that white fliers did, these fighters for race equality would consider it a Jim Crow Air Corps...
...further proposed that vegetables be cooked with greater care, since at present this is the most frequent source of complaint from students, according to the Council...
With regard to Mr. Freedman's complaint that the Advocate prints unsufficient (sic) fiction reflecting "college life," one can only reply that the Advocate has never set itself up as a literary version of the Crimson, that if the contributors choose to occupy themselves with what Mr. Freedman so quaintly described as "Freud and frou-frou," it is in itself a reflection of a prevalent spirit, and that any significant change in the contents of the magazine will come not through peevish, unsubstantiated complaints via the daily press, but rather through attention to the elementary principals of literary form. Marvin...
...farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one of the key dramatic parts; the Three Stooges and Mickey Rooney were unfortunately unavailable, so the Esquire hillbilly roles written for them were given to lesser-known great actors. Will Hays found nothing to censor, and the Governor of Georgia's sole complaint was that the state's fine peaches weren't given a plug. Others who read the book or saw the play will find "Tobacco Road," the picture, one of the funniest slapstick comedies of the year--the most disappointing Hollywood product since the flickers declared themselves...
...accuse the Advocate of being unrepresentative of the College, and I bring this charge to you and not the Advocate editors partly because I do not think they would publish my complaint and partly because, even if they did, their circulation would limit severely the range of my appeal. For who other than Advocate editors, and candidates of which I was one ever reads the magazine...