Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner in balmy Savannah "General" Farley explained that the Adminitration's airmail policy would end "abuses which grew out of an unfair and stifling competition...
Perhaps the NRA can weed out child labour, now that adult labour is the issue. Perhaps it can weed out unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...
Although no reason for the refusal of the invitation was announced, it is believed that the Committee felt that exposing college boxers to the critical eyes of spectators accustomed to viewing professionals would be unfair. The cheering and jeering that is forbidden in the collegiate matches could not be curbed with such an audience. It was expected by those interested in arranging such a match that it would draw a crowd of at least...
...manifestly unfair to bring into the discussion of the subject the entirely irrelevant charge that the artist is mercenary. He is no more mercenary than any of us who expect to be paid merely what was agreed...
...French in their treatment of British trade have been unfair, unjust, and intolerable. No other course is open to Britain. It is enough to drive almost to despair an Englishman who has done all he could to promote good understanding between these countries...