Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hanson explained that the Justice Department's complaint was not only against the A.N.P.A. but against advertising practices in the U.S. newspaper-and magazine-publishing industry as carried on by their trade associations. Charged Hanson: "The result [if the case is successful&#], will place the entire business of . . . advertising in printed form in a straitjacket of judicial control, policed by . . . the Government...
...Bums" were headed for nothing but trouble. All through spring training, the press sniped at Manager "Smokey" Alston with ill-mannered regularity. When Jackie Robinson had a beef about how seldom he was playing, he got columns of space in which to howl. When Catcher Roy Campanella had a complaint about his spot in the batting order (No. 8), his words were rushed into type. Dodger President Walter O'Malley wondered out loud if a squabbling ball club might not be a healthy one. Nobody seemed to be listening...
...Thanks to Turf Columnist Evan Shipman's complaint, New York's Metropolitan Jockey Club belatedly arranged to televise its last race of the spring meeting: the $111,700 mile-and-a-furlong Wood Memorial. And thanks to the desperate courage of Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, closing from behind in the final jump to nip Mrs. John W. Galbreath's Summer Tan by a neck, millions of televiewers saw a thriller...
...meeting, spasmodically interrupted by protests from irate citizens, lasted for almost two hours. Almost all residents offered comments at least once and, without exception, every complaint was directed at University students or University officials...
...Marine Rue was far from chastened. The complaint convinced him that the city must be full of other impatient sports fans, all just as irritating as he. A little research uncovered the astonishing fact that Los Angeles newspapers, radio and TV stations, public libraries and universities got an average of 30,000 Rue-type requests every...