Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tacit sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought to be the last man in the State of New York to do"). But the President's added comment was, although oblique, much stronger...
...Sunland, Calif., Church Member William Doak advertised a revival at Evangelist Harry O. Anderson's Baptist Church by dressing up like the devil, picketing the church. He paraded with a sign: "Anderson's program unfair to me and my friends. This institution entices my servants away. Local No. 666, Union of Amalgamated Beelzebubs...
They had feared being caught between two classic tax millstones-a tax on profits above a certain return (in 1917, 8%) on their invested capital (unfair to smaller, growing companies), and a tax on earnings above the average of recent years, unfair to railroads, others who have almost forgotten the taste of profits. The new tax plan employed both millstones. But instead of crushing all corporations between them, it offered them a choice...
...dream of lamb chops! . . . They rollop up and down in front of Fontainebleau, parading huge signs: 'Ruth Ericksen is unfair to lamb chops! We are young, tender and juicy. . . . Moreover, we are modest, we wear frills down to our ankles and that is more than SHE does on some of these Saturday nights-yeah...
According to what Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had heard, Mrs. Ericksen was not only unfair to lamb chops, she was unfair to youth. Mrs. Roosevelt had heard that Mrs. Ericksen did not like the American Youth Congress, to which Mrs. Roosevelt is very partial. Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion...