Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers seem to be finding out that the once-hated Taft-Hartley Act gives them a right to complain to the Government against unfair pushing around by their own union bosses as well as their employers. In a speech to a gathering of labor lawyers last week, the National Labor Relations Board's Chairman Boyd Leedom reported that, of the unfair-labor-practice cases handled by NLRB during the past year, individual workers filed 37% of the 3,522 charges against management, and a remarkable 46% of the 1,743 charges against unions...
Amid the stunned grief and angry outcry in Germany that greeted the news of the Pamir's loss, there were many to complain of a needless sacrifice of the nation's youth, but many more to defend the tradition they died by. There still were eager cadets aplenty to sign for the next voyage of the Passat...
...half meditation in the monastery gardens was like all his actions of his week of triumph: he kept a discreet silence about his intentions, as is the victor's prerogative. The opposition Socialists, on the other hand, might be expected to hold a noisy post mortem to complain about the lackluster campaign by roly-poly Erich Ollenhauer, but the important Hamburg state election comes up in November, and if the Socialists are to win it, they must seem to be united...
...airmen complain that the U.S. is badly out-traded whenever a new route agreement comes up for negotiation. The airlines point to the 1955 agreement with West Germany's reborn Lufthansa, under which the Germans got rich routes to half a dozen cities up and down both U.S. coasts in return for landing and pickup rights at six German cities. They argue that The Netherlands' KLM Royal Dutch Airlines won new routes last April which will give the Dutch $15 of revenue for every $1 the U.S. gets in return. The latest: a route across...
Doctors concede that insurance plans have helped provide prompt payment of bills, but many also complain that patients who receive insurance checks direct spend them for other things, leaving the doctor to wait for his fee. All doctors agree that the most urgently indicated treatment is fewer and simpler forms. Says one: "It would be the greatest headache remedy since aspirin...