Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case as usual had been damaged by U.S. practice. In Bavaria, one General Radovan Popovitch had organized 10,000 compatriots into a "Royal Yugoslav Army," rented some of them out to the U.S. Army. Washington ordered these mercenaries dismissed. At week's end Vishinsky presented a Tito complaint against the use on the Italo-Yugoslav frontier of General Wladyslaw Anders' émigré Polish army-which is paid by the British...
...names in Cleveland's big dailies in those days. The city's 36 nationality groups lived together as hostile neighbors. One day in 1926, Andrica called on Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Scripps-Howard Press. He brandished a batch of scribbled items, registered a heavily accented complaint...
...Schenectady, General Electric's home plant lay idle. There most of the 18,000 strikers were conservative people, somewhat bewildered by what the Communist-tinged leadership of the C.I.O. United Electrical Workers had done. A common complaint echoed through the city: "We didn't know we were voting for a strike when we voted for a $2 raise...
...Security Council meets in Church House just behind Westminster Abbey. There the test came last week when Britain's Ernie Bevin rose ponderously from his se.at near Vishinsky. Bevin, looking straight ahead, said: "I think it would be a great mistake if any country could not have its complaint heard." Everyone in the room snapped to attention. Vishinsky was a picture of pallid, intense concern. Bevin warmed up throatily on Greece (which Russia had brought up to counteract talk about Iran). Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, leaned forward and tried in vain to calm...
Soviet authorities looked them over, ordered four taken down. Russian reasoning: a picture showing hungry children stretching out empty dishes might be interpreted as "a complaint...