Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know why no one has mentioned this before or what good it will do anyone to have it said now, but I must confess to having been angry enough to want to see my complaint in print. What upset me was the wholley unwarrented treatment of the various religious groups in the Yearbook (317) References to magic and so forth in the article on the Christian Scientists, a flippant remark about money and parties in the one on the Catholic Club, and others, none of them worthy of reproduction, set a new high for bad taste...
Roses & Robbery. Next day, when the Item was getting ready to print its exclusive tape recordings, the T-P argued that state funds had been used to help the Item get a story. The paper trumpeted the complaint of the police superintendent, who said Richter acted "in collaboration with the Item for the express purpose of 'framing' policemen." The T-P also checked into Richter's past, found out he had been arrested eight times, convicted on a narcotics charge. State Revenue Lawyer Guy L. Deano answered that he and the Item knew all about Richter...
...former student editorial board was replaced with a joint student faculty staff. The change was made, according to the Chancellor of the Journalism School, in order to preserve, "a more consistent editorial policy." This was the first time the "consistency" of the Kansan had been a cause of complaint...
Spectacular Complaint. Stamler carried out his orders with tactless vigor. He slammed 100 gamblers, including Big Shots Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis, into jail, and got indictments against a score of others, including three highly placed cops and a former Bergen County prosecutor. Amidst this furor, Bergen Gangster Willie Moretti was mysteriously killed (at the orders, according to Stamler's hints, of politicians who were afraid he would talk). But Willie, according to testimony, did not die before making one spectacular complaint: he had given $286,000 to a smalltime statehouse aide named Harold John Adonis...
Dickerson also admitted that the Republican state committee had accepted a $25,000 "loan" from one Joseph Bozzo, a friend of Gambler Longie Zwillman, and had kept no records of the cash repayment. What about Willie Moretti's complaint about his $286,000 bribe? Dickerson knew all about it-for Willie had called at Dickerson's home (in company with Joe Adonis and brother Salvatore Moretti) and had cried, "Tell the governor and the attorney general that I don't intend to take this laying down." The governor, Dickerson went on, had been "shocked" to hear...