Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between hotel rooms and War Department shuttled the General's plump aide, Capt. Thomas J. Davis, carrying a bulky dispatch case. Seven times in four hours he puffed back & forth. With each round trip one of General MacArthur's seven charges was wiped from the complaint. Then final terms were secretly signed...
...have a big name, the editors won't even look at your manuscript. . . . Why, there's better stuff rejected every day, than what gets into print. . . ." As to every editor who ever bought a piece of fiction, that chronic complaint of obscure authors came again & again to Editor Sumner Newton Blossom of American Magazine. He knew it to be nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn to a bright young woman, to an elderly cultured...
...chapel. It is, unfortunately, too early to insert our stereotyped editorial on heating the chapel, as there is a rule of the paper which forbids its use oftener than once a month. We, therefore, pass over tre old grievance at this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of the psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore, respectfully suggest that on cloudy mornings the gloomy chapel be illuminated by a stray candle here and there. The reader may now expect some words about...
...only with the majority of its workers. Houde refused. NRA took away Houde's Blue Eagle. In September the Houde case made even more headlines when the National Manufacturers Association notified its membership to ignore NLRB's decision on majority rule. The board's retort was to prepare a complaint against the Houde company and send it to the Department of Justice for action...
Last week, on the twelfth day of headlong Chairman Biddle's term, a bill of complaint in equity was filed in Attorney General Cummings' name against the Houde Corp. in Federal Court in Buffalo. In three different ways the Government asked that the firm be judicially directed to deal with the A. F. of L. union alone. Houde was given 20 days to answer. Thus was the stage set for the first round of the first legal test of the Labor Relations Board's collective bargaining creed, a test the final round of which would undoubtedly...