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Samples of FRB's carefully gathered evidence: Transamerica controls about 80% of all deposits in Nevada, 39% in Oregon, 42% in California, including 100% in 13 counties. The complaint was based on more than a general charge of the Brandeisian sense of bigness. According to the complaints of scores of bought-out banks, Giannini played unfair ball by hiring away their top officers and paying fantastic prices to their stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Too Big? | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Trusteeship Council faced a complaint from St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, London (a Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) concerning the Fon (king) of Bikom, in the British Cameroons. Missionaries had reported the Fon to have 600 wives. Britain icily retorted that he had only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Half & Half | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Burned Up. In St. Louis, Eugene G. Fitzgerald won his divorce. His complaint: she criticized his cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...state, or more precisely, a trade union state. Even this is not quite precise in contemporary U.S. terms. Though the sun never sets over the lands to which their sway extends, the Labor Party looks inward. The fate of Burma disturbs it less than a housewife's complaint, and the housewife will go unheard if a shop steward is discontented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REVOLUTIONISTS WITHOUT WHOOP-DE-DOO | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Louis, 38 top-ranking Episcopalians took their church's official leadership to task for obstructing church unity rather than promoting it. Target of the document was a "Statement of Faith & Order" recently prepared by the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. Their chief complaint: the commission's statement does nothing to clear up the church's ancient ambiguity on the subject of the "historic episcopate," Episcopalian equivalent of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Apostolic Succession (an unbroken line of bishops consecrated by bishops traced directly back to St. Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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