Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath the graceful curve of the St. Louis Gateway Arch lies the empty shell of an underground visitors' center, partially completed when electricians' from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. local early this month walked off the job, stopping all work. Their complaint: the contractor had hired plumbers from the rival Congress of Industrial Unions, a labor organization formed by St. Louis Negroes, who cannot get into the lily-white building locals...
...personality and his ruthless tongue. So deadly was his sting in Parliament ("The conducted tour of the Honorable Member's mind would have been more instructive if it had not taken place in gathering darkness") that opposition backbenchers were once cautioned against needling him. To a parliamentary complaint that he had a superiority complex, Menzies could only agree. "Considering the company I keep in this place," he snapped, "that is hardly surprising...
...Corporations any that they would like an Instant Negro, but that they can't find him," Alexander said. He called this complaint a "sophisticated excuse" for ineffective methods of recruiting personnel...
...fresh ammunition against him. McNamara attempted, for instance, to reduce by half the $1 billion military-pay increase voted by Congress. From the greenest recruit to the most bemedaled general, from the swampy boondocks of Viet Nam to the carpeted offices of the Pentagon, this stand brought the complaint among servicemen that their boss was not behind them. In 1963 and 1964, for economy reasons, McNamara also held down the Army's program to strengthen its helicopter force; now there is a crash drive on to form new helicopter units. Most serious of all-considering McNamara's reputation...
...Congratulations on the good sense you displayed in selecting General Westmoreland for Man of the Year. His has been a lonely, unpleasant assignment, but he quietly carried on with high effectiveness and without complaint. To appreciate his worth, one has only to remember the contrasting career of General MacArthur in Korea and the Philippines. General Westmoreland, I suspect, is totally uninterested in his image...