Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sides in full. But how would your far-away friends know which to believe if you just mailed them the two statements without digging deep yourself to find where the mayor was telling the whole truth and where he was drawing the long bow-where his opponent was being unfair and where he was scoring a good point? And if both statements were full of political guff, wouldn't you just say so, instead of taking up your friends' time to "read both sides...
...rolled bandages for the Red Cross after Pearl Harbor. One madam boasts a citation from Henry Morgenthau for selling $132,000 worth of bonds during the Fifth War Loan Drive. To be asked to move out of their private homes seemed to members of the oldest profession unfair discrimination against patriotic citizens...
...Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, to gain permanent custody of their 9-year-old son, admitted she had separated from Husband No. 3, Cinemactor Gary Grant, with "no chance for reconciliation." ("He isn't happy and I think it's best we part now. Besides, it's unfair and dishonest to take advantage of his name . . . because I am fighting to hold my child...
Into this barnyard mess squawked New York City's egg-shaped Mayor La Guardia to peck at the Government for failing to give the consumer the benefit of its egg buying. Said he: "It is unscientific, uneconomical, unfair and most wasteful and sinful for the Government to buy eggs to support the market . . . and expect to sell them to the consumers at the same price, These eggs ought to be sold for about 75% of ceiling price to the consumer. The Government could then recoup 75% of its investment and the consumer would get the benefit of low-priced...
...Federal income taxes on corporations (except for a 5% franchise tax). Reasons: 1) because to tax income twice-once when it is received by the corporation and again when it is received by the real owner, the stockholder-makes no sense; 2) because it is unfair to tax millions of small stockholders at 40% and up on their corporate income when their in dividual tax bracket is much lower; 3) because high corporation taxes raise, some times pyramid, the cost of goods; tend to keep down wages, make investment so unattractive that much employment dies stillborn out of "tax considerations...