Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government and the people have, however, asked that certain abuses shall be discontinued. There has been legitimate objection to such things as unfair profits as, for example, profits on watered stock or salaries which are out of proportion to services rendered...
...cattle, no one gave them water, no one hurried them to the mercy of the slaughterhouse. The 800 livestock handlers of Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.- "the cowboys of the stock yards"-were in the street instead of in the pens, pacing slowly back & forth, bearing placards: THIS PLACE UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR...
...This is most unfair. This is most unjustified," whined that old dog of Cuban politics President Carlos Mendieta as the four ABC members of his Cabinet abruptly withdrew. Their desertion left sly Dr. Mendieta, who could find his way blindfolded to the U. S. Embassy, more than ever dependent on his ''good neighbor" in the White House. Obligingly President Roosevelt decreed last week an embargo which will stop all shipments of U. S. munitions to Cuba except munitions requested by the Cuban Government for the shipment of which the U. S. State Department will issue licenses...
...this year either Ben Chapman (Yankees), who got only 19,076, or Heinie Manush (Senators), who got 82,410, was more deserving. Big league managers are not wholeheartedly in favor of an all-star game. They feel that it tires their best players, gives the two special managers an unfair advantage because they may get a chance to spare their own men while using those from rival teams...
Author Brailsford differs from the peerage of panaceatic prattlers in his levelheaded, often ironic detachment. Though he is a Briton, he can take a truly-international view of disarmament: ''It would be unfair to question the sincerity of the general wish to disarm one's neighbors." Though he takes off his hat to the Fascists with a left-handed gesture ("The efficacy of beating as a method of refuting adversaries ranks among the major political discoveries of our century'') he does not regard Hitler as one of the beasts foretold in the Book of Revelation...