Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time being, students will be able to cook in their rooms, provided they do not create offensive odors. Replying to a complaint against sloppy garbage disposal, the Council suggested that garbage be wrapped and deposited in covered garbage cans...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, long a showcase for avant-garde painting and sculpture, slapped a court complaint on outspoken A. & P. Millionheir Huntington Hartford, who once wrote of the modern artist: "Engrossed with evil, [he] has wandered off to some streamlined inferno in which he has burned in effigy the normal people of the earth." Purpose of the complaint: to enjoin Hartford from dubbing his proposed $2,000,000 museum on Columbus Circle "The Gallery of Modern...
...Complaint. Though embarrassed because a fuss was being made, and because they were being addressed by a total stranger, a few murmured shy agreement. A reckless one or two applauded these strong words, never before uttered aloud on the Underground. Passengers who had docilely left the train discovered what was going on and re-entered like lions. The helpless guard fetched the station master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments...
...Atlanta, U.S. Judge Frank A. Hooper heard the complaint of two Negro ministers, decided that segregated seating on city buses was unconstitutional in light of the Supreme Court's Montgomery bus decision. Atlanta becomes the third Southern city (with Montgomery and New Orleans) ordered to integrate buses; 26 other cities have desegregated voluntarily...
...through one of the most thorough management revolutions in the history of U.S. industry. "American business," he says, "spends too much time on thinking about this month, this year. It ought to spend more time preparing for 15 to 20 years from now-the next business generation." Another Cordiner complaint: business is so big that individual initiative is often stifled. Men who once would have been bosses of their own companies have too little chance in a corporation to run their own shows. Cordiner's answer to both problems: massive decentralization...