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Dedicating a WPA swimming pool in the small French-speaking city of Opelousas, Governor Long announced that he intended to investigate every complaint of wrongdoing on the part of State officials. He hotly denied that as Lieutenant Governor he had been "a mere rubberstamp" for Governor Leche and begged the people not to condemn the entire State Government just because a few irregularities had turned up. Bellowed he: "Jesus Christ had twelve men and one of them turned...
...complaint of post-War functional architects in the U. S. has been their lack of opportunity to design churches to look like what they are: auditoria. Chief obstacles have been the clergy's caution and a widespread public conviction that ecclesiastical architecture is divorced from the common clay of other 20th Century buildings, should reflect age-old architectural traditions...
...turnout which had already been staged for such Nazi bigwigs as Field Marshal Hermann Göring and Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Against the Poles, who are outnumbered by Germans 24-to-1 but who run the public services in Danzig, Adolf Hitler can never lay the complaint that they suppressed Germanity in the Free City. But despite the surface calm, Poles could list last week numerous serious complaints against Germans. It was these which caused so much apprehension in Poland and a first-class European scare...
...settles down in the parlor, coddles his five young grandchildren, enjoys a lively card game called tarot with his sons. Always at his call is his nine-year-old chow dog, Lun. During his 16 years of suffering, throughout his 15 operations, he has never uttered a word of complaint. Patient and resigned, secure in his fame, he spins out his last thoughts, and basks...
Many a small businessman confronted by a National Labor Relations Board complaint has ruefully decided it was cheaper to sign a consent decree, setting up new labor conditions in his plant, than to fight the case. Hartley Wade Barclay, editor of the industrial monthly Mill and Factory discovered one big reason why this is true. Intrigued by wholesale capitulation of small business in labor cases, Editor Barclay investigated the cost of defenses to NLRB complaints. Ruling out the automobile company cases because the amounts expended were so large that they would unbalance his study, he last week published his finding...