Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defendants made prudent inquiry into the ... affairs of International," Irving Trust charged in the complaint, "or had they exercised a reasonable and prudent management of International, or had . . . caused to be presented to them . . . certified audits made in accordance with standard accounting methods, or had . . . properly discharged their duties ... all the misapplication, conversion, waste, depletion and loss of International's assets would have been prevented...
This was exactly the sort of complaint which the Shannon committee wanted & expected to get. Unexpected was the intrusion of two disabled veterans-Joe W. McQueen and Alexander D. Saper. The Disabled American Veterans (organized as such) have a thoroughgoing distrust of private hospitals which make contracts with the Government for the care of veterans. The men believe that veterans get less care and attention than do private patients. No matter what happens to men hospitalized for nonservice disabilities, for themselves Disabled American Veterans want Veterans Bureau hospitals...
...Wilmington, Del. Valuing its trade mark at $5,000,000, N. B. C. said it had been damaged to the extent of $250,000, asked an injunction against the manufacture of "shredded wheat" by Kellogg. Last week Kellogg retaliated. In New York's Federal Court it filed a complaint under the Sherman anti-trust laws, charging unfair competition, coercion, monopoly. Kellogg claimed that patents on the shredded wheat process have long since expired, that it has been kept out of competition by efforts of N. B. C. "to coerce & intimidate the trade by threats of suits, ... by employing...
Finland, which lately went Wet (TIME, Jan. 11, et seq.), seethed with complaint against the State Alcohol Monopoly Co. last week. For one thing the company's stores are closed on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, holidays, on days preceding and following holidays, and every day from 3 p. m. until the following 10 a. m. For another thing the Government, firmly believing that mixed drinks are bad for the stomach, has issued stringent regulations providing that, without special permission, only two kinds of mixed drinks may be sold, the Martini Cocktail and the Manhattan Cocktail. In Italy (though...
...because the billiard room in her home made a good stage. She studied drama, soon decided on a literary career. In 1919 Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, English journalist, lying wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night...