Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to reports that the police and the United States Immigration Bureau would conduct a wholesale roundup of "reds" incidental to solving the Worcester bombing case, the Communist candidate for governor of Massachusetts, John J. Ballam, issued yesterday a statement denouncing the action as an unfair attempt to discredit the Communist party and other working class organizations. In view of the patent hostility, Mr. Ballam was probably justified in insisting that the Communist party is, by principle, opposed to terrorist activities, and that therefore it cannot be held responsible; but mere reiteration of this dogma will hardly serve to assure...
Justice Staley then proceeded to give his personal opinion on Governor Roosevelt's handling of the Walker case. He opined that the Albany hearings had been unfair because: i) the Governor had not called witnesses to make out a direct case against the Mayor and be cross-examined by the defense; 2) the Mayor's private life was not ground for removal unless moral turpitude were disclosed; 3) the Mayor's first-term activities had been passed on by the people and were therefore beyond the Governor's scrutiny. Though he lost his plea. Mayor Walker...
Also passed out was a Walker statement in which the Mayor intemperately flayed the "unAmerican, unfair proceeding conducted by Governor Roosevelt against me." Excerpts...
...unlawful invasion of my rights is due to a Governor who has a personal interest in the outcome of the proceeding. ... He has been studiously unfair. ... He has acted as a prosecutor. . . . He has allowed questions that even a first-year law student would recognize were not permissible. . . . Shall I permit myself to be lynched to satisfy prejudice or personal ambition? ... I have gone as far as anyone could. . . . Why then continue before him when there is another forum open to me? To that forum, the people of the City of New York, I leave my case...
...believe this is a ridiculous statement on your part and very unfair to the Democratic candidate. If this statement is true, kindly mention the names of those offering such generous odds...