Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COMPLAINT: QUESTIONNAIRE RE CHILDREN'S APPRAISAL OF THEIR PARENTS; FACT: QUESTIONNAIRE WAS PART OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STUDY NOT UNDER SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP. CONCEDE HOWEVER MISTAKE IN GIVING QUESTIONNAIRE TO PUPILS...
...COMPLAINT: TEXTBOOKS UNDERPLAY JAMESTOWN AND PURITANS; FACT: MORE EMPHASIS AND SPACE GIVEN TO JAMESTOWN, ETC., THAN TO CATHOLIC SETTLERS WEST AND SOUTHWEST...
...Peter Matthiessen (Yale '50) and John P.C. Train (Harvard '50), son of the late lawyer-writer Arthur Train. Over Pernods at the Chaplain bar in Montparnasse, they agreed that the world badly needed a new little magazine, and scraped together $ 1,000 to start it. Their complaint: "Laden with terms like 'architectonic,' 'Zeitgeist' and 'dichotomous,' the literary magazines seem today on the verge of doing away with literature, not with any philistine bludgeon, but by smothering it under the weight of learned chatter." The Review "put criticism where we thought it belonged...
...Chevy through a 3-by-10-foot plate-glass window and right into the side of a shiny black $6,000 Lincoln Continental. Damages: $2,300 to the building and the Continental, $1,000 to the Chevy, a cut lip for Mrs. Norman. The enraged company manager signed a complaint charging Mrs. Norman with malicious mischief. She posted $400 bail, airily said Metro could "go ahead, sue, I'm broke," and went back to work. First contributors to a Norman legal-defense fund: a group of anonymous "auto salesmen" who sent $15, hoped it would help Mrs. Norman...
...June 25, 1952, Northfield received a letter from the Federal Trade Commission charging the company with mislabeling its products. A similar letter came on Dec. 12, 1952, still another on June 10, 1953. Goldfine testified before the House subcommittee that he thought Northfield had settled the FTC complaint then "with the correction of our labeling practices." But Goldfine's son, H. Maxwell Goldfine, talking to a TIME correspondent a few weeks before his father's testimony, had another version of how the hoped-for settlement was sought. He blamed Einiger Mills, Inc., a Goldfine competitor, for prompting...