Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen would alter this procedure sharply. If there were a local public-accommodations law, an individual could not file a federal suit until 30 days after he had notified local officials of his complaint. The federal court could delay the suit until local officials completed their action. If there were no local law, he could file federal suit immediately. The court then would have the power to ask a newly created Community Relations Service to investigate and to seek voluntary compliance with the law for up to 180 days. These negotiations would be secret. If they failed, the suit would...
...condemning The Deputy, dirty movies and the Communist threat, is rarely heard on such social issues as segregation and political corruption. Catholic book publishers seldom try to get Spellman's imprimatur on anything more controversial than the life of an Irish saint, and there is an undercurrent of complaint from young priests about the steady-as-you-go conservatism of chancery decrees. Says one Manhattan curate: "It's easier to preach about socialism in New York than to advocate liturgical reform...
...their acquaintance who seemed, in Scotland Yard's words, "odd or eccentric in their association with prostitutes." Said Commander Hatherill: "What has astonished me is the number of women in this profession who have been picked up, stripped in a car, then knocked about-and made no complaint...
...data board makes it possible to find out what you want to know about a building without actually going inside. In the past, if a complaint came from, say, the Biological Laboratories that rooms were overheated, Buildings and Grounds had to dispatch a North Yard Tunnel man to the Biological Laboratories in order to get readings from the relevant thermometers and pressure guages. Now, whenever he wishes, a man sitting in front of the Langdell Hall data board can find out the air temperature of the Biological Laboratories (or a great many other things about any building in the North...
...Washington, State Department officials could only guess at the motives behind Castro's new militancy. The U-2 complaint may be part of a buildup for aggression charges that Castro threatens to bring against the U.S. at the U.N. As if to broaden his case, Castro again charged U.S. Marines at the Guantanamo naval base with "outrages and provocations," including throwing rocks across the border fence and urinating on a Cuban flagpole. But no one could rule out the possibility that Castro gunners might actually take a shot at a U.S. plane...