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...Hall, Bicentennial headquarters. Soon a university publicity man hustled out, shooed the Willkiettes away. Conscious of his duties as a host, earnest President Gates meant to permit no discourtesy to the guest of the day: the President of the U. S. He had made short work of a testy complaint by old Mining Magnate William Guggenheim against the "special prominence" to be given Franklin Roosevelt at his alma mater's celebration. Headliner of Harvard's Tercentenary, President Roosevelt was also to be headliner of Penn's Bicentennial...
...Methods." Not Iong ago a civil servant who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production expressed the general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't the Beaver producing the planes?" "Oh, yes," said the complainant, "he's producing them all right. But, my dear fellow, the methods! They're dreadful...
Taking advantage of the Sherman Act's "vagueness" (favorite corporation lawyer's complaint), Arnold installed his own definition of trade restraints, his own prosecuting technique. Instead of busting merely big corporations, he went after all industrial situations where he smelt a fishy price. Usually he brings criminal rather than civil actions. If his victims reform their ways thoroughly enough, Arnold then sometimes signs with them a consent decree, nol-pros the criminal action. High-minded businessmen like General Motors' Alfred Sloan (who fought a criminal suit in court rather than sign away G. M.'s profitable...
...Hosts were horrified because their young guests wore their daytime shirts to bed, complained that they were often verminous, untruthful, rude, quarrelsome. Most common complaint: bedwetting. Usual reason: the emotional upset of leaving home...
...Italian Naval Attache at Athens formally apologized for the bombings. The sinking of the Helle, the Italian press angrily insisted, was the work of the British. This claim enabled the press to bring up another complaint against Greece: that British warships use Greek ports to take on supplies and fuel (a point of international law which is not yet settled), thereby spoiling the Italian blockade in the eastern Mediterranean...