Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deserve the credit for making the bread. That same socialist refuses to discredit his man who works in a munitions factory, which he believes is a capitalistic venture. In one case the worker receives the credit, and in another similar case the employer the discredit. This is obviously unfair...
...against undertaking the development of the port of Callao.* He had when "elected"† promised his people lots of money and lots of economic entertainment, but the wicked New York bank having acquired an option on loan flotations for Peru, had thwarted him at every turn in a most unfair manner. The U. S. Secretary of State in his reply (unpublished) stated that the Guaranty Trust Co. is a private institution over whose legitimate operations the U. S. Government has no control. He was also understood to have conveyed to Senor Leguia his belief that the Guaranty Trust...
Nothing is quite so easy to do, or so unfair in the ''doing, as throwing mud at former prophecies that haven't "panned out." Hindsight, now as previously, is much simpler than foresight. All the same, there was heard last week considerable criticism of the bankers and industrial leaders who last Fall predicted great prosperity this Spring. The Spring has come, but profits in most lines of industry are getting leaner each week; in some industries they have disappeared...
...That changed conditions through the lapse of 30, years have made a plebiscite impracticable and unfair...
...That a plebiscite now would be especially unfair, since the character of the population has been changed by the acts of Chile in order to control the vote...