Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash, against a rich competitor. Suits under anti-trust laws have developed into a well recognized form of business blackmail. With its last few thousand dollars (or a lawyer on a contingent fee) the small company threatens the big one with a suit for damages because of unfair competition. If a settlement is not forthcoming the racketeer sues for some staggering sum, the victim gets publicity bad for any business, possibly a government investigation...
...applications for work under the new wage scale, which the pilots rejected. Meanwhile Century's schedules from Chicago to Detroit and Cleveland were discontinued. The service to St. Louis was maintained by two '"strikebreaking" pilots. Alongside one of those planes flew another with a sign: "Century is unfair to pilots." Century announced it had scores of applicants for the vacant jobs, would resume service as soon as they could be broken in on the routes...
...triStates. Naturally when serious shooting, stabbing, beating are administered in neighboring parts, first thought is of Memphis. The city is more than glad to offer its well-equipped hospitals, skillful surgeons to dying men, but when time is a more potent factor than medical science, it is unfair to discredit Memphis with the murder...
...absurd to say that Hawaii had a "race problem," when only a tiny fraction of the mixed population was making trouble. The Hawaii Tourist Bureau cabled that the Kahahawai incident had been played up in a manner "terribly cruel to this self-respecting community and wholly unfair to many races living harmoniously here." White citizens declared recent events were "regrettable"but ridiculed any idea of a serious race uprising in the face of 20,000 soldiers & sailors stationed on the islands. They contended that much of the trouble was caused by Southerners who look on the Hawaiians as Negroes...
...Chicago where municipal credit has long been at rock bottom, financial relief also came into sight last week when the Illinois Legislature passed a bill to revamp Cook County's taxing machinery. A non-political taxing board, under this measure, will replace elective assessors whose lopsided and unfair assessments have been the root of Chicago's tax troubles...