Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced a victory. A certain tobacco company, which the Commission was careful not to name, had agreed to "cease and desist forever" from allegedly unfair methods of competition. The Commission objected particularly to the testimonials in this company's advertising and to its advertising advocacy of cigarets as an aid to slenderness. "Advertising matter [of this company]," reported the Commission, ". . . contained a testimonial or indorsement purporting to be that of certain actresses in a musical show who were credited with the statement to the effect that through the use of respondents' cigarets...
...Warren Club, which was represented by V. V. R. Booth 31, and R. F. Young 3L, acted as Counsel for the Defendant in a case of equity affecting trade secrets and unfair competition. The Scott Club, upholding the side of the plaintiff, was represented by E. B. Hanley Jr. 3L, and C. A. Howard...
...case to be argued is one of equity affecting trade secrets and unfair competition. The judges are to be the Honorable W. S. Kenyon, United States Judge of the Eighth Circuit; the Honorable Smith Hickenlooper, United States Judge of the Sixth Circuit; and the Honorable Kenneth MacKintosh, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington...
...course in Chaucer, required a comment on one of two passages. The first was a quotation in rather difficult German and the second one in fairly simple French. Granted that the language requirements demand a reading knowledge of either one or the other, it seems a little unfair to expect that a student who had taken or was planning to take French 2 or German 1a would thereby be enabled to surmount a sight translation...
Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...