Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking advantage of that laudable function of the CRIMSON which provides publication space for all Harvard men with chips on their shoulders. My grievance is a long-standing complaint against Harvard's one and only literary magazine, the Advocate...
...Local draft boards have caused much complaint with their conflicting rulings on married registrants. The Gruman board policy makes more sense than most: the board uses the draft to solve unhappy marriages, does not draft the happily married. Example: a registrant whose wife appeared in a swank fur coat, said she had a job as a model, could hardly wait until her husband was in the Army and out of her sight. He was drafted...
...Charlotte, N. C., Farmer Roland Dagenhart brooded over the support of his large family, decided that the law would kill his constitutional right to keep his two sons, Reuben and John (both under 16), at work in a cotton mill. His complaint was upheld in district court; Farmer Dagenhart found his views so appealed to industry generally that a powerful Wall Street law firm undertook his case. His opponent was Federal Attorney William Cicero Hammer, and Mr. Hammer got himself some help, too-from the Solicitor-General of the U. S., a handsome lawyer named John W. Davis. The case...
Professor Perry ended his remarks with a complaint that the young men and women of the country spend too much of their time merely complaining at what they dislike without suggesting positive plans...
...Hoppy sucked cough drops to stave off a cold. His alternate moans and mumbles kept the jury awake during eight weeks of corporate figures, which few could follow. The court stenographer admitted that his "mind had lost its continuity." Defense Attorney Fred A. Ironside Jr. owned to the same complaint. So confused was the court at times that even Howard Hopson smiled...