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When one Farnham Fox, a tuba player, got out of his Bayside, N. Y. apartment three months early, he offered an excuse-complaint not new to landlords-a plague of insects. Last fortnight in Flushing's Municipal Court, Musician Fox's suing landlords submitted this letter which they had sent him: "The insects you complained of are crickets and no doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth...
Whether or not the closing of Shepherd is a direct result of the examination of the Commissioner of Public Safety could not be ascertained. On March 12, the building was inspected because of a complaint which had been lodged a short time ago, and was found to be unsafe. The University was notified that it must undertake drastic changes within thirty days or it would be compelled to vacate the building...
...Papen fought for hours against the proclamation of Adolf Hitler's Jewish boycott. In the end they rushed to old President von Hindenburg. Baron von Neurath offered his resignation, was finally persuaded to withdraw it. Old Paul agreed absolutely with his two Nationalist ministers and added a private complaint of his own : he had just learned that his name had appeared without authorization on anti-Jew proclamations in Munich. Like a naughty schoolboy Handsome Adolf was summoned to the Feldmarschall's office, and Handsome Adolf meekly backed down. He was willing to call off the boycott, he realized...
...Petrzalka, Czechoslovakia, on the complaint of a woman who thought that she had been sold dogmeat, police raided the butcher shop of Josef Lehanec, found hundreds of smoked rats hanging from his hooks, arrested him on a charge of butchering without a license...
...would be impossible for us to change Zoology 3 to the second-half year in 1933-34," said II. W. Rand, associate professor of Zoology yesterday, when informed of a petition which is being circulated in favor of such a change. The basis for the complaint in that Zoology 1 and Zoology 3, which are both pre-medical courses, come in the same half year...