Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill places an unfair burden on college athletic budgets. It is intended to tax luxuries, but it taxes what has become a necessity. When the Senate considers the bill, it should, with due regard for the immunity of educational institutions from taxation, make some amendment allowing college sports to go untaxed...
...proceeded to mangle it almost beyond recognition. Leaders of the revolt were insurgent Republican LaGuardia of New York and Democrat Doughton of North Carolina. Arraying mass against class, they argued that the sales tax raising $595,000,000 of the bill's $1,096,000,000 was an unfair impost upon poor people, that wealth should be conscripted to balance the budget...
...unsettled the industry, intensified the great competition bound to exist when four producers dominate so involved a market. Last week Eberhard Faber made a formal statement of what its future sales policy will be. It will make no direct sales to consumers; no sales to distributors whose prices are unfair to other distributors; no sales to small dealers (properly the wholesaler's field); an attempt to sell pencils only to people who violate no other person's field in reselling them. While price-fixing is illegal, such attempts to maintain a fair price are not, and what will...
...House Plan. This rule had been adopted in the Spring of 1930 and was later rescinded but it now appears that a final decision has been reached. Seen purely from the standpoint of the approximately thirty Freshmen who will thus be barred from the Houses the move may seem unfair. But the action of the University carries far wider implications and is indicative of a change in policy in the school: an effort to make it more and more of graduate character. Although present restrictions seemingly make a realization of the ideal--a professional school, free from all undergraduate instruction...
...irritating step in economic warfare which will tend to destroy friendly international relations. . . . It is an unwarranted invasion by the Government into the field of private business. . . . It is a return to the obsolete system of barter and involves discrimination and retaliation. . . . It is arbitrary and unfair. It nullifies our existing trade treaties. So protesting vigorously against it, I speak for 800,000 businessmen of the United States...