Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispute, the Board's decision left the third party clearly on the spot. If National Electric's President William Christopher Robinson obeyed the Board, he would defy the bench. If he obeyed the bench, he would defy the Board. For either-contempt of court or "unfair labor practice"-he may go to jail. This was a dilemma which all the ripe experience of President Robinson's 70 years could not resolve, and he swiftly sought counsel of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...direct challenge to the Board's power and vice versa. The Board insisted last week that the Wagner Act "embodies a public policy of national concern and is the supreme law of the land on the subject matter covered by it. It empowers the Board to prevent any unfair labor practice . . . and expressly provides that 'this power shall be exclusive...
...Berlin of London's almost sacred Times, to be replaced by ''somebody less concerned with trivialities and more with facts." The British were shocked, regarded it as a blunder for the German Government to suggest that the dispatches of Norman Ebbutt, a distinguished journalist, were unfair. He got into trouble with Nazis in 1933 for reporting truthfully that many Germans were afraid to vote against the Government in the plebiscite because of the possibility of marked ballot papers, but as recently as 1935 some of his dispatches were reproduced in Berlin newsorgans because they pleased Nazi bigwigs...
...committee junket this fall into the farm hinterlands to study conditions first hand, then report a bill for enactment next session. Therefore, when he learned that Messrs. Bilbo and Black had 40 names on their petition Cotton Ed stormed into the Senate: "Mr. President ... I think it is unfair to the committee. . . . We are studying the problem and doing the best we can to solve it. The farmer himself is only afraid of suffering because of the act of God. He has reduced his acreage but he cannot control the seasons. . . . There is a law which empowers the Commodity Credit...
Thumbing their way through the labyrinth of the decision, the companies wailed that the conclusions were "grossly unfair and misleading," asserted the whole document is based on "erroneous information," indicated their intention to file an appeal to Mexico's National Labor Board...