Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among "unfair educational practices" the bill lists: denial of admission through the quota system; written or oral inquiries concerning the applicant's race, religion, color or national origin. Under the measure a commission would be set up to investigate all discriminatory practices in schools and colleges; after complaint by an aggrieved person, or when the Commission Chairman "has reason to believe that there is discrimination," the body could begin its investigation. If discrimination were discovered, the Superior Court would then have the power to issue cease and desist orders...
Marsalka, a Wallace organizer and Connecticut Progressive Party candidate for Congress last year, said that he had filed a complaint against Yale's decision with the American Association of University Professors and is awaiting its action...
...Government. For weeks the Reds' lawyers had incessantly argued that their clients would not get a fair trial because New York's system of selecting juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor, and women. The jury finally chosen showed the quality of their long-winded complaint. Among the 16 were three Negroes, eleven women. The foreman: Mrs. Thelma Dial, a Negro dressmaker. Three of the jurors were unemployed. The only ostensibly well-to-do juror in the lot was Broadway producer and author Russell Janney, 63, who wrote the bestselling Miracle of the Bells...
Tuition is going up, it now seems certain. The Administration has made its decision and there is little chance of its being reversed. Any complaint now would be only a futile gripe...
...were "piddling," compared to G.M.'s recent boosts of $42 and $150 on its 1949 models. (Actually, G.M. will have no net savings on labor costs, as it will give a 3?-an-hour increase in May under its union contract.) Nevertheless, G.M. had shut off any union complaint about the pay cut-and it had outfoxed other motormakers, notably Chrysler Corp...