Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwina Austin Avery, publications editor of the Bureau of Plant Industry, pointed out to the House Civil Service Committee how unfair the law is to marriageable lady jobholders, how it spoils their prospects with all the job-holding males in Washington. Some girls, she said, prefer to risk their souls in sin rather than risk their jobs in marriage. E. Claude Babcock, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, testified that he personally knew of at least nine cases of jobholders living together without benefit of matrimony. Before nightfall, the question of Spread-the-Work v. Spread...
...Chicago, to prove her divorce contention that her husband was an habitual drunkard, Mrs. Madeline McCarthy produced in court a photograph of Mr. McCarthy snoring in a bathtub. "Unfair," said Mr. McCarthy...
...perfectly permissible stand to adopt from the abstract merit of the sports in themselves, the seven dollar levy which they propose as the means of financing them is obviously impracticable, since it is in effect an increase in tuition which would work hardship on many and would be unfair to an equal number. The issue then comes down to the question of whether the intrinsic value of the minor sports is worth the sacrifice in some other direction that would have to be made to keep them...
Feeling that the recent change in athletic policy at Harvard is both unnecessary and unfair, we, the undersigned, wish to make public the following resolutions...
...system is unfair to the incoming freshman class ('39), which, being unorganized, will have difficulty enough realizing what advantages the various sports offer, without the added problem of buying their own equipment. With such an informal aspect to their sports, the ultimate result can only be the abandonment of the sports involved, or at best, participation by a small minority...