Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Credentials. Weltner's predecessor was one James C. Davis, an eight-term Congressman who kept getting returned to Washington because of Georgia's unfair county-unit electoral system (which was loaded in favor of rural counties as against urban areas), his unflagging efforts to secure appropriations to fight hog cholera and water hyacinths, and his diehard segregationism. Then the county-unit system was overturned by the federal courts, the district was redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials...
...allegory. The controversy is the race question, and the allegory supposes that millions of white Americans are forced to experience what millions of black Americans have experienced during the last two centuries. The reader is invited to see how the whites like it and to conclude that turnabout is unfair play...
...James Peech, chairman of United Steel Companies, Britain's biggest steel company, moved on to the next big question: What compensation should the government pay if steel is nationalized? If Labor bases its offer on recent stock prices of the firms, said Peech, it will be guilty of "unfair expropriation...
...paper's reviewers personally, Mr. Gordon among them; they are all excellent and intelligent writers. My point is that no matter how intelligently written their critiques may be, they cannot be justifiable as such unless they are based upon a working, principled knowledge of their subject. If it is unfair to ask that CRIMSON drama critics understand in detail the ways and means of stage production, as I can understand it might be, I do not think it so to ask that they confess their views to be those of the "average theatre-goer" rather than those of a professional...
...next morning Eisenman's votes were counted, and it was found that he placed among the top eight. Ellis decided to let him run, and dropped from the list the ninth-place candidate who had been announced as a finalist. But then the HCUA decided this was unfair, so it reversed itself again and allowed nine names to be placed on today's ballot...