Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into sharp relief has the railroad problem of the United States been thrown by the decision of the President's fact-finding board. For, in ruling that the threatened wage-cut is unfair to employees, as well as futile toward a general solution of the problem, the report has silently but surely implied that the salvation of American railroads lies only in an evangelistic conversion: i.e., in complete reorganization. Only this could it have meant when it pointed out "the necessity that now rests upon the government for a complete and thorough-going reconsideration of the relationship of the railroad...
When it became apparent that a reduction was coming despite these arguments, the companies unanimously asked for a flat rate because a sliding scale would greatly increase their work and actuarial complications. Though Mr. Pink warned that "any fixed rate ... is bound to be unfair over a long period of years," Governor Lehman last April signed the Piper-O'Brien Bill establishing a flat rate of 5% (4.8% to those who pay in advance). And since New Yorkers hold nearly a fifth of the $109,572,000,000 U. S. policies in force and since the companies obviously cannot...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt tonight vigorously accused the House Committee investigating un-American activities of permitting itself to be used in a "flagrantly unfair and un-American attempt" by disgruntled Republican office-holders to influence the reelection campaign of his friend, Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan...
Homer Martin (further explaining his presence) : "The 32-hour week is a problem for the entire industry....No one firm should be placed in an unfair position...
...BISHOP IS UNFAIR TO THIS PARISH, read a sign posted on the lawn of the rectory of St. Barbara's Roman Catholic Church in Vulcan, Mich, last week. Twenty pickets lounged about the rectory lawn. They had been lounging there for six weeks, in defiance of their Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens, who had ordered their priest of the past 13 years, Father Simon Borkowski, transferred to a seminary in Wisconsin (TIME, Sept. 5). Professing to be unable to get past the restraining pickets, Father Simon remained in his rectory. Then, one day last week, a party of 60 Catholics...