Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master of avoidance, and the rules of courtesy, plus the prestige of his great office, preclude any attempt to pin him down. He gives out in these conferences just what he wishes to give out, and, if he is in a tight place, there is always the unfair device of 'off the record,' or the less blameworthy evasion: 'I haven't read...
...protective committee of longs, smarting from their scolding, howled for a more drastic penalty from the shorts. Said its Chairman Carlos G. Garcia: "This ruling is extremely unfair. It shows the rankest kind of favoritism on the part of the Exchange officials. It shows extreme partiality toward a group of professional traders, and convinces us that the public has no chance on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange...
...obtain work in the various mills and factories from the hot beds of communism, now existing in some of the Northern States, namely, New York City and Chicago. These Northern cities, where exists hot beds of Communists, Bolshevists, rackateers and gangsters, and in poor grace, to be so unfair as to make such charges as appears in this article referred to-about the little episode in Shelbyville-making a mountain out of a molehill...
...think that the tone of your ''Man-of-the-Year" article, and your gallingly unfair treatment of the views of American business leaders and economists are ill-becoming a so-called newsmagazine? You have shaken my confidence in your trustworthiness...
...other grounds also, the present situation appears unfair, for in the last few years the University has dealt liberally with infractions of the rule. Now some Juniors and Seniors are officially, to all practical intents and purposes, allowed to extend their vacations with impunity, while their classmates are threatened with disciplinary action for doing likewise. Certainly, the Administrative Board at its meeting tomorrow should do no more than warn the offenders and use the data to determine its future policy...