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Word: unfair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia, as President Nicholas Murray Butler's academic procession made its solemn way across the Morningside campus, a dozen striking members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, armed with placards shrieking that COLUMBIA IS UNFAIR TO THE PAINTERS' UNION, wheeled impudently into the rear of the procession, followed it to McMillin Academic Theatre where they stayed outside to picket. Meanwhile in another corner of the campus the radical American Student Union planned to hold a mass meeting, incite Columbia students to strike from their classes unless Dr. Butler and Dean Herbert Hawkes reinstated Junior Robert Burke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Soundoffs | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

YOUR CURRENT ISSUE [TIME, Aug. 24] CONTAINING STATEMENT THAT PENURIOUS YANKEES AND SHIFTLESS MALARIAL CRACKERS TO WHOM YOU ATTRIBUTE MY SUCCESSFUL NOMINATION TO U. S. SENATE IS STRIKINGLY UNFAIR TO ME AND AN INSULT TO NOT ONLY EVERY NATIVE OF FLORIDA BUT A HOST OF FLORIDA'S BEST CITIZENS FROM NORTHERN STATES WHO CHOSE TO MAKE THEIR HOME HERE. IT IS CONCEDED HERE THAT MY JUDICIAL LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE RECORD OF 25 YEARS AND MY CO-OPERATION WITH THE CITRUS INDUSTRY AND CONSISTENT ADHERENCE TO DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES PLUS A HISTORICAL PIONEER FAMILY RECORD EXTENDING OVER 100 YEARS IN FLORIDA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat on the ground that "Famous Names" was no contest of skill but simply a public gambling device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Name Game | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Last week the Seattle Guild's demand for the reinstatement of Lynch and Armstrong was refused. The Seattle Central Labor Council promptly announced that the Post-Intelligencer was "unfair to organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Seattle Strike | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...room, plunged through an open window. He struck the sidewalk head first, 50 ft. from the car where his wife was sitting. She screamed, fainted. On the dead man's desk was found this final scribble: "My only hope in life was to improve the condition of an unfair economic system that held no promise to those that all the wealth of even a decent chance to survive let alone live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Last Lines | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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