Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid no attention to the railroad's complaint that the town only gave it $15 worth of passenger business a month. "We don't want to be just another little place like Punkin Center or Bug Scuffle," he cried, and called the city commission into special session. The result: an ordinance which would have forced trains to crawl through town at no more than 15 m.p.h., ring their bells (but not blow their whistles), with a stop for "sanitary inspections" whenever the mayor ordered...
...This complaint applies not only to the President but to his whole administration." The article cites the Student Council, "which could be said to exist largely for the purpose of complaining about things," as reporting that students are unhappy with the University "to the extent that they regard what they get as an 'empty education'--because it lacks the firm foundation of regular and intimate contact with the faculty...
...Saddle. In Amherst, Mass., 94 year-old Mrs. Lois Mitchell, horseback riding for the first time in 70 years, had a complaint: "I had to whip him to make him trot . . . Bicycling is more fun because I can put more vim into...
...each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon's Wayne Morse, always one of the quickest to anger, rose in shrill complaint...
From Copping's point of view, the whole case, which had been started on the complaint of a former Horsley Hall maintenance worker, was "preposterous." Though admitting that his pupils could visit in each other's bedrooms any time, he denied that at Horsley this led to sex relations, "not if they have been with us for more than a few weeks." Argued Copping's lawyer: "One of the most astonishing features in the case is that not a single parent has been called [by the prosecutor] to say they are dissatisfied with the way the children...