Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial which appeared last Friday in which the House Masters were accused of "abusing their rights of selection . . . for the purposes of discrimination" and "rash actions" is grossly unfair...
...position of the Master is not an enviable one. He must interview a large group of men in a very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range...
...from all items in the House's $835,000,000 Agriculture supply bill, the committee shied. Such a move might be all right, they said, if applied by the whole Senate to each & every supply bill regardless, but to single out Agriculture for such treatment struck them as unfair and politically unwise,† Not only that, but the committeemen jeopardized all economizing to date by voting into the bill $378,000,000 more for farmers...
...contended that WPA work was 75%-80% as efficient as private; the Treasury men had examined only a few of his 10.000 projects, had picked unfair examples. The building at the Fair, he said, was expensive and employed a lot of non-Relief labor because it had to be rushed...
Once more, it is vicious because of the rich man, poor man problem. There is a premium on the long purse; and Mammon has his share in dictating grades. The financially less able scholar is given an unfair handicap in the contest with a wealthy competitor. Sentiment on this score is intense and vigorous...