Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required to pay mill costs plus a "phantom" rail carrying charge on a 400-mi. haul, although the mill was only 72 mi. away. Same practice was prevalent in the cement industry. Biggest Darrow blast was directed against the retail code. Originally containing specific provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between its adoption and final promulgation. Responsible, hinted the report, was the influence of one potent "socially and politically" figure in the industry (i. e. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy...
...find that she denied the ministrations of a medical practitioner, through a stubborn belief in the efficiency of prayer by a paid healer, and that her recovery was retarded thereby, you would be unfair to your oath if you charged Cisler with these injuries. If she claimed that there is no pain and that the way of relief is through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy you cannot make Cisler...
...competitive bidding. ¶He changed specifications on new Boeing pursuit planes, thus delaying construction so long that the type will be obsolete when delivered. ¶He made "false and misleading statements" about Air Corps affairs, and recanted points of sworn testimony. General Foulois promptly branded the charges "most unfair and unjust," asked for an open hearing in court. Popular in and out of the service, he had many a defender. His friends made the point that purchases by direct negotiation, while il legal, were the rule rather than the exception in government aircraft procurements because most specifications could be best...
...outmoded big league player, sometimes net $4,000 in a season. Last week the House of David's Eastern team was in the news. In Federal Court in Manhattan, the House of David was seeking an injunction against one Louis Murphy of Spring Valley, Ill., accusing him of unfairly competing with the House of David" team during the past five years. Murphy, claimed Judge Dewhirst, had a team whose members not only wore beards but inscribed House of David on their shirts. And their games were booked so that in many a town the Murphy team played...
...weeks ago the police prevented a possible rict from taking place in City Square with only minor injuries a week ago the National Guard fired into a raging riot in Teoedo, causing two deaths. This is not an unfair comparison for often in this country police have been forced, sometimes justly and sometimes unjustly, to adopt such tactics in a crisis of this sort. From this angle, the immediate usage of methods which involve only slight brutality to stop these demonstrations is more sensible than waiting until drastic steps are necessitated...