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That the public welcomed his challenge was evident from the fact that the programs of his five forums for complaint (1) employment, 2) prices, 3) trade practices, 4) code administration, 5) oppression of small business) were long in advance completely filled. Only exception to this eagerness to complain was in Forum No. 3 (trade practices). The United States Patriotic Society Inc. ran public notices in the Press saying that it would be glad to represent complainers at the meeting, free of charge. Meantime all code hearings were canceled by NRA for the duration of the battle...
Admitting that she had no complaint against the Harvard Freshmen, Catherine Warner, ex-Union waitress, assailed the harsh disciplinary conditions in the Freshman dining hall in a statement to the CRIMSON last night. The bombastic reports which have been appearing in the Daily Record were over-emphasized, she asserted, but maintained that they were based on facts, although she had not believed that they would be taken so seriously...
...denied that she had any real grievances against the Freshmen. She said, "All that stuff about the Harvard boys was written in fun. They aren't any different from any other people. There were a lot that were nice, and some that weren't. I haven't got any complaint with the boys...
...Last man to be jailed for contempt of the Senate was Oilman Harry Sinclair in 1929. Oilman Sinclair, however, was prosecuted, sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the District of Columbia Supreme Court on the Senate's complaint...
Like most City News legmen, "Boss"' Corrigan, who started as an office boy, rarely wrote a story in his 20 years. He gathers his data from the complaint room, from the little Press table in the court room, from innumerable policemen, lawyers, court attendants, judges of his acquaintance. He makes copious notes, descends to his dungeon desk and telephones his office. Far downtown near Park Row one of four lightning-fast rewrite men takes Reporter Corrigan's tale, whips it into a precise, minutely detailed, colorless but accurate story. Page by page it is teletyped to the newspaper...