Word: complaint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, made the official complaint on the part of Harvard...
According to the complaint presented by Lawyer Morton, Herbert Fleishhacker in 1919 agreed to let the Anglo Bank lend M. Barde & Sons, Inc. of Seattle and Portland funds to buy steel from the U. S. Shipping Board, in return for which favor he was personally to get half the profits from the sale of the steel. Brothers J. N. and Leonard B. Barde presently received $325,000 from the Anglo Bank, another $175,000 from the Central National Bank of Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid...
...Fleishhacker never imposed a repayment condition upon any of the loans made to the Bardes, that he had never received any secret emoluments under the guise of salary or dividends. In his brief period on the stand, Banker Fleishhacker categorically denied all charges in the plaintiff's lengthy complaint, maintained he had acted in perfect good faith. Finally Lawyer Neylan called serious little Etienne Lang to the stand and twitted the Frenchman about gold bricks, international debts and finally, in an amazingly facetious bit of cross-examining, about the mythical story of Banker Fleishhacker and the drowned Chinese...
...story to the National Labor Relations Board was the wording of one section of the complaint-alleged employment of "armed guards, notorious criminals, gun-thugs commissioned as deputy sheriffs and other irresponsible ruffians for the express purpose of threatening, intimidating and coercing its employes." But a new wrinkle in unfair labor practice was contained in the complaint that the company was luring good unionists away from union meetings with a kind of entertainment the union could not offer. The coal company, charged the United Miners, "did procure lewd and immoral women to perform free, indecent exhibitions known as strip-&-tease...
...Forget. Mr. Rascoe, who was writing for the Tribune when Mr. Annenberg was there, remembered in his book a lot of things that had happened to delivery trucks and newsstand dealers, drew the conclusion: "This was the beginning of gangsterism and racketeering in Chicago." Mr. Annenberg declared in his complaint: "Plaintiff is and always has been a forthright, honest and faithful citizen . . . always has been engaged in lawful and honorable businesses...