Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first working meeting of his committee to chart the G.O.P.'s future goals. He argues with force that businessmen should not worry, as many do, that participation in politics will hurt their business. Says he: "After six years of it, I have yet to get a single complaint from a buyer or stockholder." PERCY'S dedication to responsibility also includes broadening the intellectual horizons of Bell & Howell exec- utives. They are treated to monthly skull sessions with such world-minded figures as Henry Cabot Lodge and Paul Hoffman, get free volumes of Plato, Rousseau and John Dewey...
...also went to Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 89, only living daughter of Crane's founder, explained that Evans' chief argument with Crane President Neele E. Stearns was over Stearns's slowness in expanding the firm's inadequate network of independent wholesalers. Proof of Evans' complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share v. 21? last year), which did not show the strong comeback from the recession of Crane's chief competitors. Mrs. Chadbourne decided to back Evans and Landa with her 120,759 shares, and they agreed to put Grandnephew Robert...
...Bounced back the latest Soviet complaint that the West was trying to sabotage the coming East-West talks (by sending planes along the air corridors into Berlin above 10,000 feet, by rearming West Germany, etc.) with the stinging word "hypocritical...
...loyal to the army, but also disturbed by Christian conscience, they had intended their joint letter for the private reading of their bishops; but their complaint turned up in the liberal French Catholic magazine Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Witness). "Arbitrary arrests and detentions are numerous," they wrote. "Interrogations are conducted only too normally by methods that we must call torture. Summary executions of prisoners, civilian and military . . . are not exceptional. Finally, it is not unusual during operations for the wounded to be finished...
...same problem four years ago, creating the "Harvard Plan" for Army ROTC. This program recommended a twelve rather than six-week summer camp to teach the basic Army manual courses, thus decreasing the amount of on-campus time required of the student. The latter is the University's basic complaint about ROTC. Characteristically, the Army rejected the "Harvard Plan," but did consent to modify it to the present program, which will continue...