Word: complaints
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This week Jimmy and Betsey Roosevelt ceased to be man & wife. They were separated not by his original suit (desertion) but under her cross complaint (cruelty and desertion). With a lawyer and a brother for legal and emotional support, Betsey trekked from Manhattan to Los Angeles to see her suit through. On her arrival she sat down in her mink coat and broad-brimmed spring hat and managed a wry smile for photographers. Next day, as she appeared in court in the same outfit, she was almost gay. She testified that Jimmy had asked her for a divorce as long...
Skimpy attendance at Faculty meetings is an old complaint. It was to remedy this that the Faculty Council, an elected representative body, was set up a few years back. Last fall, when the tenure controversy raged and the interests of Harvard teachers were directly involved, attendance zoomed; at one session nearly 300 Faculty members attended the largest meeting in Harvard history. Encouraged by the big turn-outs, the Faculty voted to suspend the Faculty Council for a year and to resume regular full Faculty meetings. But now the fever has subsided, mid-winter apathy has set in, and on alternate...
Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...
...this week filed a cross complaint charging cruelty and desertion...
...Dean's Office also reports that instructors in professional schools have serious cause for complaint with those students who have come to these schools after tutoring in College...