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...Typical was the story of Widow Anna Eickleberry who had lived in Baca County 26 years. She voiced the perennial complaint of the Drought belt: shiftless farmers who have long since lost everything get Federal relief, but hard-working farmers can get no aid to keep them from destitution...
...management. Promptly to bat went four officers and directors of old Pacific Mutual, including 73-year-old George Ira Cochran, president of the company for 30 years until last autumn when he was moved to the chairman's seat to make room for President Kemp. In a complaint to set aside the reorganization, they accused Commissioner Carpenter of inexperience, charged that he had sprung the reorganization on them without due warning. Next move of Commissioner Carpenter was to file a $511,650 suit for misuse of Pacific Mutual funds against Complainant Cochran and seven of his onetime officers. Meanwhile...
Arriving at Rome, Bishop Gallagher told newshawks: "I have no complaint against Father Coughlin. . . . The head of all priests in the diocese of Detroit is myself. It must therefore be for myself to make observations about Father Coughlin, not the Vatican...
...familiar complaint against the New Deal is that it has virtually wrecked the Civil Service system by loading deserving Democrats into all sorts of good jobs. A prime statistic: in three years Roosevelt, Farley & Co. have made 150,000 straight political appointments, have reduced Federal employment under the merit system from 80% to 63%. A prime reason: in setting up emergency agencies the Administration short-circuited the Civil Service to get men quickly...
...Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that the Government stepped in and mildly recommended in renewing the charter that "the staff should be free from any control by the Corporation over their private lives." Another standing complaint against B. B. C. is the dullness of its Sunday fare. At the Government's suggestion, Sir John promised to seek "a better balance and a more attractive layout of the Sunday programs...