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...subscription to TIME, as a Christmas present. I thought it about the best news periodical I had ever seen, but after reading some of the crank letters you print I think I should engage some of the writers to show you how to run your magazine. The only complaint I have is misleading advertising...
...Cartan was so polite that he bowed to the photographer politely from the middle of the street and was almost run down by an auto. He had a young lady translate for him and she asked the photographer to take movies of Professor Corrado Gini. Gini had a complaint that all the delegates here probably have; that his paper was considerably different in meaning when it reached the newspapers...
...Spending 'like this is not waste. It would spell future waste if we did not spend for such things now. . . . On my entire trip, though I asked the question dozens of times, I heard no complaint against the character of a single works relief project...
...Charles W. Bryan, thrice (1923-25, 1931-35) Governor of Nebraska, onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, brother of the late Great Commoner, spied a couple hugging each other as they drove down a Lincoln street, followed them into a beer tavern. At the Mayor's complaint, the bartender refused to serve beer to the couple. Into another tavern they marched...
...thought her 200-lb. son-in-law had traded on her daughter's maternal instincts. Said Mrs. Spencer: "It was just on account of his being sickly and weak that Baby married him, I know. She is so kind-hearted and sympathetic." Gist of Mrs. Spencer's complaint soon proved to be that she did not have a high regard for the social standing of young Wright's parents. Mrs. Spencer also doubted the young man's ability to furnish his bride with 365 new dresses a year, since Mary Belle reputedly "won't wear...