Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio's Vic Donahey has lately boasted that he will vote against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
...Imperial Marble continued to make shipments by boat over the lake to be delivered in Knoxville. These shipments, costing 21? a cubic foot more than overland shipments, figured prominently in Major Berry's first estimate that the TVA had damaged his mineral holdings by $1,633,000. the complaint he filed with TVA before he was appointed Senator this year...
...common complaint among modern U. S. artists is that book illustration has gone to hell. For this some of them might share the blame, since to the naked eye of the average publisher nonrepresentational painting is not much use as illustration. Fact is, however, that the fashion is against any illustrations at all except for children's books-a tendency which reached a little apogee last month when Painter Miguel Covarrubias published a book on Bali, illustrated mostly with photographs by his wife (TIME...
Greyhound Corp., or rather one division of it, Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, has made labor news before. The first case heard by the National Labor Relations Board was a complaint that Pennsylvania Greyhound had fired a group of employes for deserting its company union in favor of A. F. of L.'s Street & Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employes. The Labor Board ruled out the company union, ordered the employes reinstated. For a time it looked as if Greyhound would be the key case in the Supreme Court's review of the Wagner Act, but that honor finally went...
Embattled last week on a coast-to-coast picket line, the American Newspaper Guild, in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, charged the New York Times with "coercion and interference with the organization of the employes." In Seattle a drawn-out strike against the Star was stalemated, a new strike against the Bayonne, N. J. Times was met with a drastic injunction forbidding every form of picketing and any attempt to influence other employes. But in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the Guild won a notable victory as it ended a strike against the Record: effective Jan. 1 all editorial...