Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless Your Majesty must have fixed times and appointments?" Said the King: "Of course I must, as in every big business; otherwise everything gets confused. Sometimes I work late, but when one has a charming wife and charming kids, there is no reason for complaint...
...Government's 73-page complaint charged that A.T. & T. had eliminated competition by patent restrictions, purchase of competing companies, etc., and had set up Western Electric as the exclusive manufacturer and dealer for "substantially all" U.S. telephone equipment. "The absence of effective competition," said the complaint, "has tended to defeat effective public regulation of [telephone] rates . . . since the higher the prices charged by Western for telephone apparatus and equipment, the higher the plant investment on which [A.T. & T.'s] operating companies are entitled to earn a reasonable return...
...complaint charged other monopolistic practices: refusal by A.T. & T. to let outside manufacturers use alternative patents which Western Electric was not using; suppression of cheaper improvements that might cut A.T. & T.'s rate bases. Example: the hand telephone, developed in 1907, was not introduced as standard equipment until...
Teachers complained of absenteeism after all-night initiations. Parents were fed up with having their daughters come home with egg in their hair. Principal T. Guy Rogers of the Thomas Jefferson High School had another complaint: "We have had athletes who are not willing to play with non-fraternity boys." Other principals complained of snobbery: most fraternities wouldn't take in Mexican-American students...
...shots; then he would be dragged outdoors in early morning and put through a drill. When he seemed to be growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted "a venereal complaint," he was married to Belgian King Leopold's daughter Stephanie, who described herself as "the rose of Brabant," but of whom her uncle remarked: "Poor Rudolph! His bride has the daintiness of a dragoon...