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Word: unfair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter is self-explanatory and I wish you would publish it in an early issue. It would be unfair to the Archbishop not to publish it, so please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...York rather than have Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt throw him out of it. On trial for his political life, pestered with questions about where he got his money, jaunty Jimmy exiled himself in Europe after thumbing his nose at Mr. Roosevelt and storming: "He has been studiously unfair. . . . He has acted as a prosecutor. . . . Shall I permit myself to be lynched to satisfy prejudice or personal ambition?" Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker faced each other again. Mr. & Mrs. Walker paid a call at the White House (see cut). Ostensibly Jimmy went as lawyer-lobbyist for a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: In Adversity | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Cited last fortnight for unfair labor practices, Republic was on trial last week in Washington before the National Labor Relations Board. Among the charges was that "the company at all six plants has interfered with the right of its employes peacefully to picket and still does intimidate its employes by shooting at them and by throwing bolts and other dangerous missiles at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Aftermath | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...story to the National Labor Relations Board was the wording of one section of the complaint-alleged employment of "armed guards, notorious criminals, gun-thugs commissioned as deputy sheriffs and other irresponsible ruffians for the express purpose of threatening, intimidating and coercing its employes." But a new wrinkle in unfair labor practice was contained in the complaint that the company was luring good unionists away from union meetings with a kind of entertainment the union could not offer. The coal company, charged the United Miners, "did procure lewd and immoral women to perform free, indecent exhibitions known as strip-&-tease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Happy Harlan | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...compound. Driven out of business by the Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail stores. FTC challenged Marmola's advertising but the Supreme Court held that FTC was not set up for the purpose of "preserving the business of one knave from the unfair competition of another." Typical of FTC trivia last week were cease-&-desist orders against: 1) Coolerator Co. of Duluth, Minn, (iceboxes ) for offensive advertising including disparaging observations on electric refrigerators; 2) Tolpin Studios, Inc.. of Chicago for using the word "Limoges" on china which did not come from Limoges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FTC | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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