Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to your article Historic Saturday in TIME, February 13, in which reference is made to President R. S. Hecht of Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, I cannot refrain from lodging my protest regarding at least one unfair reflection. . . . That John J. Gannon, whom he (Mr. Hecht) displaced, spent the brief balance of his life cursing Rudolf Hecht in all public places as a double crosser. No more thoroughly incorrect insinuation could you possibly have published, for the facts are that when, 15 years ago, the board of directors decided to retire Mr. Gannon without pay and informed Mr. Hecht that...
This move, or rather lack of action, is unreasonable, unfair, unprofitable, and inconsistent with the Association's action in reducing the price of H.A.A. books for the remainder of the year. It appears that it is charging what the traffic will bear, a policy which is entirely inconsistent with an Athletic for All policy. It figures that students will not but H.A.A. books at the full price, but that they probably will buy participation tickets at the same old price. That this reasoning is unjustified may be seen by considering the fact that many students did not think it worthwhile...
...view of the nature of these questions and in light of the way they are phrased, it would be most unfair to subject the answers to any sort of statistical manipulation, in order to derive sweeping generalizations from them...
...large number of freshmen the system appears both unwise and unfair and such a claim would be justified by the following objections...
Although this column has already held a great many protests, I should like to add one more to the through--this time against the unfair price charged for books in Government 1. These text books, not in stock, for the most part, in the second-hand bookshops of Cambridge, are a serious drain on the pockets of most Government students, the total cost, to date, being thirty-three dollars--fourteen the first half-year, nineteen the second. In particular, I call to your notice a required text, "The Theory and Practice of Modern Government," by Herman Finer (The Dial Press...