Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With an eye on the postwar world (and the jeep-conscious soldiers who will buy cars) Joe Frazer had tried-by splashy ads-to make Willys and jeep synonymous. For the first time on his jeep joy ride, Joe Frazer came a cropper. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Willys. (The complainant was not revealed, but the complaint alleged that the jeep idea was originated by the American Bantam Car Co.) Willys was charged with misrepresentation in claiming that it created and perfected the jeep, in cooperation with the Quartermaster Corps...
...cooks, according to the terms of the Geneva Convention. By this agreement, captives must be kept safe from "acts of violence, insults and public curiosity." They are prisoners but not criminals, can not be confined in penitentiaries, subjected to corporal punishment or any form of cruelty. They have regular complaint courts to vent POW frustration. They are still soldiers, maintain their own military discipline, salute only their captors of superior rank. They live like soldiers - but in a cage - and they gripe like soldiers...
Shortage of Valets. Complaints and demands are constant. Higher Italian officers beef about not having enough valet service. They want to buy more phonographs, especially big electric models (some have money of their own). One German officer demanded a canary. Both Germans and Italians worry the guards with trivial requests-like going for beer after hours. Common complaint: not enough mail. POWs are permitted to send two letters, one postcard a week...
Sirs: From the shortsighted point of view, i.e., a cold demand for higher wages and nothing else, the coal miners' recent strike cannot be justified. But you will find from the long term point of view, i.e., a complaint against the Government's failure to control inflation, the strike was entirely justified...
Once again the Roman Catholic bishops of Germany raised their corporate voice against religious persecution by the Third Reich. But this time both the character of their complaint (made last December) and the means of its publication (last week by U.S. official OWI) seemed more shrewdly calculated than ever before to implement their attack on the antireligious phases of Nazi philosophy...