Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radiogram from "Jimmy" Walker. Boastful as ever, he declared: "I have a justifiable pride in my six and a half years as Mayor. I know I could be re-elected by another overwhelming plurality. ... I cannot see how I could campaign without daily reminding the public of the unfair nature of the hearings conducted by the Governor of our state. This would do the Democratic ticket no good. . . . Rather than jeopardize the hopes of democracy in the nation which I feel my candidacy might do I request that my name be withheld from the convention." "We want Jimmy!" yelled...
Atlantic shipping lines, Seaboard Railways and unfriendly shippers protested bitterly to the Shipping Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission that the Seatrain, a floating railroad yard with a mile of track below-deck to hold 100 loaded freight cars, was damagingly unfair competition. Seatrain New York has a speed of 16 knots, can carry freight faster than any coastwise freighter, can lighter it from Hoboken to New Orleans in six days for half the rail fare. The Shipping Board handed down a last-minute decision while Seatrain New York was fidgeting in New York Harbor: Seatrain Lines Inc. will...
...untrue, unjust and unfair! To think that this should be thrown in my face when during the two years of my exile in Paris I was not permitted to see Mihai once, although I repeatedly sought permission to do so. Oh, I cannot believe that this interview was authentic. It was probably invented...
...present issue the state government is obviously that outside agency, but the faults of its mediation are fatal to solution. State governments invariably intercede on behalf of the operators, exasperating the miners beyond the possibility of conciliation. Moreover, a state control of mining operations would inevitably lead to unfair disadvantage of operations under its direction. The mining problem has too long been crying for Federal intervention. That the United States has failed to see this need seems ample justification for the socialistic denunciation of "vested interests...
...justified, but to the average onlooker it appears founded on hysteria, not upon any understanding of party demarcations. It is a sad commentary or a great portion of the American press that, instead of educating its public to form substantiated opinions, it panders almost entirely to irrational morbidity and unfair prejudice...