Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interests which did not think themselves sufficiently respected were the protective bondholders' committee headed by Vice President John W. Stedman of Prudential Insurance Co. and an independent committee chairmanned by Historian Charles A. Beard. The Beard committee issued no formal complaint last week but promised to have plenty to say later. The Stedman group objected particularly to substitution for first and refunding bonds of income bonds which would be "little more than preferred stocks under another name." Even more objectionable to it was the idea of allowing Allegheny Corp. to keep a 40% common stock equity...
...Give no information to officers, only your name. Plead not guilty and demand a trial. Demand that the ILD defend you. Insist that you be let out on your own recognizance. If they refuse, demand that they set a low bail. Demand a copy of the complaint. Do not sign anything. Carry on the class fight in jail and in the courts...
...arrested man, peering now & then into the pamphlet, gave no information, gave his name as John H. Porter, telephoned the International Labor Defense, demanded a copy of the complaint, signed nothing. In Night Court he pleaded not guilty, insisted that he be let out on his own recognizance, was preparing to demand a low bail when the judge adjourned the case, released him on his own recognizance...
...manufacturer, Edward Porterfield of Kansas City, undertook last week to tell Mr. Vidal "the facts of life about the aircraft business." Mr. Porterfield's complaint: "I'm strong for the $700 plane when it comes, but we haven't got it and I don't believe in kidding the public instead of inspiring confidence in present planes...
...Paix, Paris posted a blue-penciled sign on its door: "The bank will open tomorrow at noon." But the bank did not open the next day, nor the next nor the next. No one could explain why it had closed, least of all its employes. Finally on complaint of some annoyed customers who wanted their money, French officials closed it tighter than ever by sealing the vaults. Apparently the only person who could solve the mystery was the bank's founder, principal owner and undisputed boss, Bertrand Coles Neidecker, a U. S. citizen...