Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Council and the dean's office approved a similar organization last year in the army ROTC, the Caisson Club. No complaint was made at that time, according to Alexander, because the Council and the dean's office "did not notice" the compulsory dues-paying requirements of the organization...
...there's but a single complaint...
...building in Detroit, he spends upwards of 14 hours a workday on the job, usually sees his family in Flint, his hometown, only on weekends. Though head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation (1953 sales: an estimated $11 billion), he is not above taking a complaint about service personally over the phone from a G.M. car owner, and doing something about it. Design is his hobby, and the new cars incorporate some of the features on the experimental car Curtice drove last year...
...Illinois department of labor told Fisher that he was violating the law by employing people to work at home without a license. He stopped the practice, but the state turned the information over to the Federal Government. Fisher indignantly refused to show his books. The Government had no specific complaint against him, he argued, and thus had no right to see the books...
When Fisher appealed to the courts, they ruled against him. (Courts have upheld the right of the wages & hours division to check a company's books, even without a specific complaint, because employees are often afraid to complain.) He appealed right up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which twice refused to review the case...