Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Americans, Jackie thought, are ready to cry "Communist" every time they hear a complaint about the Negro's status in the U.S. "The white public," he said, "should start toward real understanding by appreciating that every single Negro who is worth his salt is going to resent any kind of slurs and discrimination because of his race and he's going to use every bit of intelligence to stop it ... Negroes were stirred up long before there was a Communist Party, and they'll stay stirred up long after the party has disappeared-unless Jim Crow...
...Leonardo da Vinci, who died a lonely old man far from his native Italy in France, Bellini stuck close to home all his 86 years, was finally buried in the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, which as a young man he had helped to decorate. His only recorded complaint against the city that made him wealthy and world famous: its magistrates' insistence that he continue to pay his union dues to the local painters' guild...
Convicted traitor Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars asked a U.S. court why she couldn't get out of prison on bail now that the Government was letting convicted spy Judith Coplon "roam the streets unmolested." In Phoenix, Ariz., ex-Publisher John Boettiger filed a divorce complaint against the former Anna Roosevelt, charging extreme mental cruelty. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Boettiger announced that she would file one against him, charging desertion...
...Dark Side. In Columbia, Tenn., Bridge Worker Walter Atkinson fell 41 feet into 18 inches of water, arose only slightly bruised but with a complaint: "My cigarettes...
Stock Charges? To Du Pont's President Crawford H. Greenewalt, a son-in-law of Irénée du Pont, the charge of "bigness," and that alone, seemed to be the nub of the complaint. Snapped he: "Since these relationships [between Du Pont and the other companies] have been a matter of public information for many years, the motive for this suit must arise out of a determination ... to attack bigness in business as such." The New York Herald Tribune agreed. It gave the back of its hand to Tom Clark for "Pecksniffian" charges, and said: "Mere...