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Word: unfair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government that gave impetus to the 8-hour day and 6-day week for the workingman. It was the Government which told the outside employer that that is sufficient time of labor and that it is unfair to work a man longer. The Federation of Federal Employes believe that the Government should not attempt to give advice to private concerns unless it is itself a model employer. We hope to make it the model employer in this respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Federal Employes | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...mind, can I depend upon other statements in your publication ? I know of newspapers where editors deliberately publish things that are not true because they think they ought to do it in order to stand well with their subscribers. Such people, in my judgment, are not only unfair to the newspaper profession, but they are doing a decided injury to their fellowmen by perpetuating untruths among them. Being very fond of Walt Whitman, I am, of course, sufficiently familiar with his poetry to know that he was not an atheist, and I am also familiar with his history, and know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paralysis of Diaphragm | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...country today stands as the only nation of the world resting solidly upon democracy, and that we cannot afford to hold out or even contend for the last cent that can be taken from our debtor nations at the imminent risk of creating a feeling that we forced an unfair settlement rather than one of liberality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Foreign Debtors | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...certain ways for certain purposes, provided the state will contribute an equal amount). He condemned it because it was a way for the Federal Government to gain control over state activities in a manner never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. He attacked it also because it was unfair in its operation: in that Nevada, at one extreme, paying $409,000 in taxes to the U. S., receives $886,000 in Federal aid (216.7%); in that New York, at the opposite extreme, paying $474,563,000, receives $4,020,000 in aid (.85%); in that four states (Nevada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Governors' Conference | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...know whether General Bullard comes from the far South as his name indicates, but I do know that his indictment of the Negro soldiers is absolutely unfair and unwarranted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Impression and Belief | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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