Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apply to newspapers in the postal laws; 2) that broadcasts of news be confined to press associations and newspapers; and that radio programs be published by newspapers as paid advertising only; 3) that the legality of "Government protected" broadcasting of direct advertising on exclusively assigned wavelengths be questioned as unfair competition...
...charge of unfair competition for advertising he reminded the Press that $31,000,000 was spent to advertise radio products in newspapers in 1930. "Suppose," said he, "that radio advertising should drop off, largely through the efforts of the Press to suppress radio programs and other radio news. What then? . . . No sponsors, no money for broadcasting ... no radio industry and no income to the Press...
...host to Edward A. McLaughlin, Jr., president of the Boston College Alumni and Harry R. Heneage graduate manager of Athletics at Dartmouth. Following the luncheon McLaughlin wrote to the mayor requesting him to withdraw his objections since the B. C. Alumni felt that under the circumstances it would be unfair to deprive football fans of the opportunity to see the intersectional game at the Harvard Stadium. McLaughlin had been assurred by both Bingham and Heneage that at the time when the game was arranged the thought that they were interfering with the B. C. H. C. game had not occurred...
...Officially he wrote: "This bill says a mule is a horse. ... A horse might make a jackass out of itself, as did certain members of the present State Senate, but I would still be unwilling to convert a State Senator into a jackass by legislative enactment. This would be unfair to the jackass...
...which he says, "The most that statesmen could do was to guide and slightly to modify, the influence of forces which were beyond their control--and by which they were inevitably influenced." This quite justly exonerates the men who were responsible for the peace terms from some of the unfair censure which they have received, but it brings forth at the same time a most ominous fact. Men no longer control their destinies, instead they are at the mercy of events. Social, political, and economic forces are so complex that in themselves they defy solution. Bismarck could unify and control...