Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...create a civil-rights division in the Department of Justice, headed by a new Assistant Attorney General; 3) permit civil suits to be filed in federal courts against violators of civil-rights guarantees; 4) authorize the Federal Government to take legal action-even in the absence of a complaint-to guarantee voting privileges...
Aneurin Bevan, the aging enfant terrible of the British Labor Party, erupted, as he does periodically, to bellow a complaint against the West's men of God. Cried Nye Bevan: "I solemnly say to the churches of mankind, to the leaders of religion here and in the United States, that they are guilty of blasphemy! They describe the Russians as a nation of God-haters, as a nation of atheists. Well, comrades, strip from your mind all the delusions you are fond of harboring ... It is from the God-haters that the proposal [to ban H-bombs] has come...
Dulles later told his press conference that he knew "nothing about the matter whatsoever," had referred the complaint to Defense with the request that it report back. Publicly, the Air Force replied that Zarubin could not have been talking about USAF planes because "no USAF planes have been flying over Soviet territory." Privately, U.S. airmen expressed surprise at the charges. In the past, the trigger-jumpy Russians have first shot down non-Communist planes in the vicinity of their borders, lodged their protests afterwards. If a U.S. plane had indeed been over Soviet territory for 2½ hours...
...Deacon Jack" Hurley, otherwise known as the "Conscience of Seattle," is a manager of professional prizefighters who suffers variously, according to his outraged complaint, from ulcers, insomnia, sinusitis, rheumatism and Republicans. Somehow he still manages to practice his furious skill for conning the public into supporting pugilists of wildly assorted talents, e.g., Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolic and Harry ("Kid") Matthews. In the current issue of Sport, Deacon Jack Hurley spells out his secrets for survival in a world beset by the dangers of women and other amateurs...
...officer in as board chairman of a principal competitor; 2) extending preferential prices to favored customers; 3) refusing to sell buses to competitors of favored customers; and 4) inducing officials of municipal bus lines to write restrictive specifications to exclude bids from other manufacturers. As a result, said the complaint, more than 20 G.M. competitors have withdrawn from bus-building since 1925, and no new company has come into the field since 1946. The Government asked the court to "perpetually" prohibit G.M.'s monopolistic practices, and to enjoin G.M. from supplying more than 50% of the bus requirements...