Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federation, tried to stop the fight. Police arrived and whacked him as well as the battling contestants. Bruised and bitter, Dr. Donath left the arena. Said Referee Komjadi: "The Brazilians have no idea of how to play water polo. ... It stands to reason that if I were to be unfair I, as a Hungarian, would be prejudiced against the Germans, our big rivals. . . ." The Brazilians were disqualified and Hungary won three games, the last one 16 to 0 against Japan, for the Olympic water polo championship. Other events...
...said it had been damaged to the extent of $250,000, asked an injunction against the manufacture of "shredded wheat" by Kellogg. Last week Kellogg retaliated. In New York's Federal Court it filed a complaint under the Sherman anti-trust laws, charging unfair competition, coercion, monopoly. Kellogg claimed that patents on the shredded wheat process have long since expired, that it has been kept out of competition by efforts of N. B. C. "to coerce & intimidate the trade by threats of suits, ... by employing a former general sales manager of the plaintiff company, and by reviving its unfair...
...public works. President Hoover favored No. 1, frowned on No. 2. Last week Secretary Mills, appearing before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, vainly argued for the Hoover proposal of R. F, C. loans to private industry. This the Committee rejected on the ground that it would result in unfair competition between industrial concerns financed by R. F. C. and those not so aided. Secretary Mills mocked the Wagner direct relief plan thus: "When you're going to bust the Depression with a $300,000,000 appropriation it's like getting a ten-year old boy to lift...
...your article captioned Prohibition p. 14 in May 30 issue, you answer Mrs. Charles H. Sabin's question "Who is ashamed of being a Yankee today?", "Any Southerner." I think this is quite unfair, both to Mrs. Sabin and to us Southern folks...
...situation is unfair. It allows certain men to have a maximum of time to prepare for the general examinations, and forces others to devote a large part of their time and efforts to relatively unimportant courses. The concentrator is unnecessarily hampered by being complied to study the detailed matter of specific courses, when he is covering the same ground and learning the significant facts of the subject, though in less detail, for divisionals...