Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reminded Adams that he had, in 1953, telephoned Federal Trade Commission Chairman Edward Howrey to find out why one of Goldfine's woolen mills had been cited by FTC for mislabeling fabrics. Back from Chairman Howrey to Adams went a personal memorandum that identified the source of the complaint to FTC, and added: If Goldfine's company would "give adequate assurances that all their labeling will be corrected, the case can be closed . . ." Adams had passed this inside information along to Goldfine...
Drenched. The total mood seemed best reflected by Oregon's Republican secretary of state Mark Hatfield, a candidate for Governor in a onetime Republican stronghold that the Democrats have thoroughly taken over. Hatfield wrote a stinging letter to the President, afterward announced the theme of his complaint. "I would not continue in office as assistant or member of an administration a person whose imprudence creates doubt as to the impartiality of his responsibilities. I am not concerned about political expediency. What I am interested in is the question of ethics involved. I have urged the President to make...
...that she was nothing but a rule beater. She was designed, said her detractors, to take advantage of loopholes in the ocean-racing handicap rule, getting such a large time advantage over sounder, abler craft with conventional deep keels that no one could catch her. In response to this complaint, the Cruising Club of America revised its calculations, sent Finisterre off for Bermuda with a shortened time advantage...
...Adams called Federal Trade Commission Chairman Edward F. Howrey to ask for the source of an FTC complaint against Goldfine for putting a "90% wool, 10% vicuña" label on cloth that actually contained some nylon. ¶ On April 14, 1955, when Goldfine was investigated again on the same charge, Adams got him an appointment to meet Chairman Howrey. Once there, Goldfine waved the Adams name like a magic sledge hammer. "Please get Sherman Adams on the line for me," he ordered, loud enough for nearby FTC staffers to hear. "Sherm, I'm over...
...roll: "It's a plague as far-reaching as any plague we've aver had. My preoccupation with this creeping paralysis is not with the lascivious quality, the suggestive dancing that goes with it. This is bad, and it's been condemned before. My complaint is that it just isn't music. It's utter garbage. This music stupefies these kids. All they have to do to dance is shake up and down...