Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deny that they set racial or religious quotas-but just the same, many ask their applicants to specify their race and religion. This week President Mildred McAfee Horton announced that Wellesley College would henceforth omit these questions on its application forms-to free Wellesley from "even the appearance of unfair discrimination...
...United Electrical, Radio & Machinery Workers of America. Colt charged that the union's record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...
...observed that Negroes will flock to work-and work just as hard-for a farmer who is known to be unfair and cruel as for a kind and honest one. His explanation: almost every Negro suspects in his heart that all white men are alike, that all will rob and deceive him, no matter what their conduct seems...
Your reference without qualification to Italian Communism's partisans "who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans" [TIME, April 19] is unfair to American and British leaders who early realized the potentialities for future trouble inherent in these Allied-sponsored guerrilla groups. Partisan disarmament was priority business for AMG in North Italy, particularly in Emilia (the eight provinces between the crest of the Apennines and the Po), whose military government I headed. The technique was interesting...
...inequalities in the plan is the fact that the new employee will have to work three years before he is eligible to participate in the plan. We consider this unfair. It is a fact that this plan offers more to the employee who has a large number of years to his credit. But it doesn't offer much to the new employee, if he is over the 50 year mark. And if he is over 60 years, he cannot participate...