Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large church attendances in any of the ships I have been attached to. Even at sea, when there was nothing else to do, there would be only 45 or 50 men out of a crew of twelve or fourteen hundred, which is certainly no large percentage. Even then unfair tactics were used as smoking and playing games were forbidden while church was being held...
...unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship is balanced by an uncanny and unfair mastery of diplomatic wiles; a coldblooded, prescient, ruthless opportunist; a calculating and conceited egoist; a cad with occasional instincts for that strange indulgence for which they have no word in their own language, and which they designate by our own expression, 'fair play...
...completed its investigation of General Foulois. Instead of removing the Chief of Air Corps as the House Military Affairs subcommittee wanted, Secretary of War Dern let him off with a reprimand to the effect that he "did depart from the ethics and standards of the service by making exaggerated, unfair and misleading statements to a Congressional committee...
...Morgan hotly defended TVA, declared the report unfair, insisted everything could be explained. Said he: "The principal difficulty of Government operation of any project is the tendency toward inflexibility of management. . . . We did our best to get around it. ... It apparently boils down to a question of whose judgment shall decide questions on the job-the engineers or the auditors...
...discharge any employe who files charges of unfair labor practices. ¶ To refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of the majority of their employes...