Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Closely following its overwhelming repudiation at the polls last week, the A.F. of L.'s militant front to steal the march on college unionization by enveloping 1500 Harvard workers completely collapsed yesterday, as international representative Robert H. Everitt Withdrew his charges of unfair labor practice against the University...
...that the State has ponderously stepped in, decided upon and conducted an election among the workers, Harvard may have a little peace and quiet. The tense is conditional because the State is still unconvinced that Harvard has not been guilty of unfair labor practices and that the election was legal...
...only were many Freshmen shocked by the large number rebuked, but were also amazed at the often unfair, and completely undemocratic method of choice which allows admittance of men on probation, while turning away honor students. Yet when the University attempts to explain away the situation, it invariably points to a number of men, not admitted, but "ineligible." How can a University boasting a liberal point of view condone a system of education which segregates the poorer students, so that they may steep together (sic) in their intellectual inertia? Is not the House just the place where they might find...
Because Eleanor Roosevelt approves The Birth of a Baby and because she approves divorce under some circumstances, she was taken to task in Boston last week by Mrs. Charles Feehan, president of Boston's League of Catholic Women. Declared Mrs. Feehan: "It is most unfortunate, unfair and dangerous for the wife of the President of the United States to make apodictical [absolutely certain] pronouncements that give offense to a large part of our citizens...
...unfair trade practices, 24 of these were speedily agreed on and outlawed, the list ranging from defamation of competitors to tampering with speedometers. Only major point the dealers refused to concede was the price-fixing of trade-in values. This FTC is eager to forbid and may still do, but the dealers maintained that this stabilization of trade-ins was all that prevented ruinous price-wars...