Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently overlooked by happy Miss Juno was a side of Harlan revealed last week in a complaint filed by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers against Clover Fork Coal Co. in Kitts...
...Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel Ford or any other officer of the company but by Harry H. Bennett, personnel director and head of the Ford police, better known as "Ford service...
...ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt...
...vast majority of FTC cases come under the elastic heading "unfair competition," a term which naturally leads it into the trivia of sharp and shady business practice. Anyone may complain to FTC, and sometimes FTC itself takes the initiative. After a preliminary investigation, the FTC may issue a formal complaint against the offender, giving him 20 days to reply. Then FTC holds hearings, comes to a decision. If it is an affirmative decision, FTC then issues a cease-&-desist order, which is a sort of informal injunction. A cease-&-desist order may be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals...
Simpler, speedier than the cease-&-desist procedure is the "stipulation," a promise exacted from the offender before a formal complaint is issued that he will be good in the future. One of the chief criticisms of FTC is that these stipulations are sometimes used as a defense when the offender gets into trouble with other Government bodies such as the Post Office and the Food & Drug Administration. Famed was the case of the mail-order makers of Marmola tablets, a reducing compound. Driven out of business by the Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail...