Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum per quarter to $6.50. Editor Baker claimed that the increase was unfair, splashed his front page with loud exhortations against it, called it "legalized robbery." It looked as if the Transcript had a chance to win until May 1933, when Pennsylvania's Public Service Commission approved the raise...
...everyone was as pleased with the new Radio Playhouse as were CBS officials and their first night guests. Manhattan theatre folk regarded it as an invasion of their domain, denounced the policy of free admission as unfair competition. Indignant theatre managers named a committee to protest...
...White House, Assistant Secretary Stephen Early said that there was no objection to 'The March of TIME'S' imitation but pointed out that since the White House felt unable to give general permission for the simulation of the President's voice, it was unfair to continue the exception in favor of 'The March of TIME.' "The Editors of TIME are sure that their radio audience will join with them in gladly accepting the White House suggestion. "There are, of course, no precedents for The March of TIME.' There was never anything...
...unfair inference of the footnote is that Grace Tibbett, as a poor girl, worked to make her husband "rich and famed" and that "rich and famed," Tibbett ungratefully cast her off with perhaps not so much as a "thank you." To present a more complete picture, the footnote should have added that Mr. Tibbett has made generous financial provision for his former wife, and that in the journey from poverty to riches, he also brought Grace Tibbett from poverty and obscurity to comparative affluence and prominence...
Technically it belongs today to every American citizen who deposited his gold with his bank, but hardly anybody asked for a receipt and it would be difficult to find out just who deposited gold and gold certificates. Also it would be regarded as unfair to pay a profit to those who by accident happened to possess gold certificates in March, while the rest of the country used other legal tender currency...