Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month or so of shark-hunting. Master of the ship was German Captain Robert Hoffman. In the crew were several Jews. At San Jose, Guatemala, two of the crew jumped ship, got passage back to Los Angeles, where they were promptly arrested last week on a radioed complaint for "resisting the officers of an American vessel [mutiny]." Waiting the return of Captain Hoffman & Party, they told their side of the tale: while the Countess di Frasso and friends baited shark hooks on deck, the Captain was busy baiting Jews below...
...their midst. A. F. of L. Organizer Ben Berk promptly complained to the National Labor Relations Board that Endicott Johnson inspired the letter, thereby violating the Wagner Act. When George F.'s visiting friends presumably spoke for themselves last week, NLRB was still investigating Berk's complaint. In the circumstances, wise old George F. confined himself to the business at hand. Said he: "I haven't in my heart ill will toward a single soul this morning. How could I have, with this expression in front...
Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew into rages when asked to exhibit evidence of conjugal affection...
...Cracked down on the wood-cased lead pencil industry. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Lead Pencil Assn. Inc., President William A. McDermid and 13 member companies which account for more than 90% of U. S. production, charged them with price fixing, unlawfully restricting, monopolizing and eliminating competition after a 1935-36 price...
...libertarian New Deal that last summer Franklin Roosevelt felt obliged to reprimand the Boss publicly, if anonymously, for his suppression of civil liberties in Jersey City (TIME, July 4). The Department of Justice even went to the extent of sending G-Men to investigate Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed out of Jersey City. (Although the State Supreme Court found against Mr. Thomas on another complaint last week, he still has the solace of a hearing against two of Boss Hague's policemen before a Federal grand jury at Newark...