Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When news of the second attack on a U.S. plane (see INTERNATIONAL) reached Washington, the State Department promptly released the text of a note sent to Yugoslavia last May 20. It accused the Yugoslav Government of a series of nefarious and unfair tactics in Trieste: subornation of the press, incitement to unrest, propaganda attacks on the A.M.G., criminal and terrorist activities, intimidation of the local public and local officials. Said the note, in effect: all this must stop...
...would be unfair [to suggest] that all censorship is harmful or silly. It isn't. . . . Broadcasters quite understandably don't like to offend individuals, minority groups, religious orders, advertisers or members of other nationalities. . . . The intentions are good but the administration is ridiculous. . . . For example...
These requests for information are unfair examples of the hundreds you make to us every month. They arrive all shapes and sizes and in sufficient volume (about one-sixth of our editorial mail) to keep a large staff perpetually burrowing for the answers-many of which have nothing to do with stories that have appeared in TIME. It is an old TIME custom to answer every letter we receive, but once in a while somebody overestimates our capacity. Take this recent communication from a South Carolina schoolboy, for instance...
...Taft was quick to reply: "Utterly unfair . . . a partisan political attack. . . . In the Act . . . the President received complete power to prevent speculation and speculative increase in prices and all increases in rents. . . . He chose to take all the chances of chaos, followed by speculative rises in prices...
...down machinery which was irreplaceable, not 8 but 14 or 16 hours a day, his sons in the service, his daughters in the defense plants, his wife on the tractor; only his dog was loafing. . . . Compelling the wheat grower to sell his wheat at an arbitrary price is as unfair as forcing union labor to work at an arbitrary wage of say 80? an hour...