Word: redressing
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...towards Shanghai with 263 U. S. refugees aboard. Out of the sky three small bombs came crashing down on the ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...
...business takes so little interest in its customers as show business. There is no redress for the spectator who is sold a poor evening's diversion. For a good evening, he must pay a large premium above the regular price of the ticket. Box-office employes are notoriously discourteous, seats are old-fashioned and uncomfortable, scarcely a dozen of Manhattan's 76 theatres are air conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre...
...eighth of an inch of John Doe's hammer throw or broad jump is to be entered in the records at all," says Dr. Kirkpatrick. "it would seem sensible to try to get it down correctly. ... In all cases where adequate data are at hand the method of redress is by simple arithmetic, in conjunction with two or three venerable formulas. . . . The labors of Newton and Copernicus have been complete for some time now, but news sometimes seems to travel slowly in precisely those quarters where it is significant...
...attorney, paid him $4,603 salary out of his own pocket. Eventually leaving the New Deal's service, stubborn Mr. Peek removed himself completely from its good graces when he plumped for Alf Landon (TIME, Oct. 12). Last week, when he petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for redress, it was revealed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue, rejecting piqued Mr. Peek's claim that his lawyer's pay was a deductible business expense, had ruled it a personal expense and slapped an extra $535 income tax assessment on his salary as AAAdministrator...
...platoon of newshawks and cameramen who met Mooney at the San Francisco jail found him, as always, cocked and primed to talk about his "martyrdom." He expected no redress from the California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears...