Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every safeguard against erasing the small operator from the economic scene. . . . The anti-trust laws must continue in their major purpose of retaining competition and preventing monopoly. It is only where these laws have prevented the cooperation to eliminate things like child labor and sweatshops, starvation wages and other unfair practices that there is justification in modifying them...
...spirit, if not of the letter of the law. Now we are moving into a period of administration when that which is law must be made certain and the letter and the spirit must be fulfilled. We can not tolerate actions which are clearly monopolistic, which wink at unfair trade practices, which fail to give to labor free choice of their representatives...
...championship fight, in the Miami arena last week, this was an amazing beginning. Weeks of intensive sneers in the Press had led them to believe that the bout between a 270-lb. champion from Italy and a challenger who was five years older and 86 Ib. lighter was as unfair as it sounded. Now, on a windy evening with rain pattering on rows and rows of empty $20 seats, they became aware that the spectacle under the warm cone of light at the centre of the Madison Square Garden stadium was an exciting contest between a clever, courageous boxer...
...nearly as critical of the Administration as I am of a large proportion of the business executives of this country," said Dr. Sprague. "When businessmen go to Washington they talk of unfair competition and chiselers. They are too greedy and magnify their own difficulties and interests...
Wilkins: It is very unfair. Furthermore, we had only a few days in which to prepare our case. I didn't intend to say this, but you asked...