Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the U.S. Government has been attempting to deport Harry Renton Bridges, a native of Australia, whose rise to labor leadership-he has bossed West Coast longshoremen since 1934-was achieved with Communist help. The basic complaint: that Bridges himself is a troublemaking Communist...
Into the orderly merger between Farm Journal, No. 1 U.S. farm magazine, and Country Gentleman, No. 2 (TIME, June 20), the Federal Trade Commission last week dropped a monkey wrench. In a complaint filed under the Clayton Antitrust Act, FTC charged that the merger would give Farm Journal-Country Gentleman "approximately 51% of the total net paid circulation among the six largest competitors in the farm magazine field"-though only 24% of total farm magazine circulation-thus "lessen competition" and "tend to create a monopoly." The news surprised Farm Journal President Richard Babcock, who said that the FTC made...
...position. His backhands ripped down the court. His lobs floated unerringly toward the baseline. Nielsen never had a chance; his booming serve was his only weapon and it was not enough. He ran himself ragged, and when the close calls went against him he had little energy left for complaint. The best he could muster were a few defiant glares (called "oldfashioned looks" in Britain) at the linesmen...
...After an astonishing series of fractured fingers, assorted bruises and an injured nerve in his right hand, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Roy Campanella came down with a new catcher's complaint: spurs on the kneecap. One of the bony growths broke off, caused enough pain to force Campanella out of the lineup. There was every indication, though, that Brooklyn's hard-hitting (.335) backstop will be back in uniform long before his teammates have time to blow their 11½-game midseason National League lead...
...Post Office Department has made Harrison clean up his magazines before putting them in the mails, and New York's Society for the Suppression of Vice filed a complaint against them. But he was undeterred. When he saw the popularity of the Kefauver crime hearings on TV, he decided that "inside stuff" was even better than cheesecake...