Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect of a higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives...
...each and every man in his famed Philadelphia Orchestra. Following the resignations last week of assistant conductor Artur Rodzinski, who goes to the Coast as leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of concert master Mischa Mischakoff, who blurted that he was leaving because of Stokowski's "rude and unfair treatment"; and of David Dubinsky, leader of the second violins, who deserted for reasons he would not discuss- the autocrat of musicians turned democrat and announced not only that every player was a potential conductor, but that each would be given a chance to prove it. Conductor Stokowski explained...
...heads dubiously. The Kansas marriage laws relating to Indians might be tricky, they said. So the sharp-eyed men and the woman-he had learned her name now: Anna Laura Lowe-took Jackson Barnett to Independence, Mo., and had the marriage performed a second time. That struck Jackson as unfair. He had not cared much about getting married once. Twice was much big nuisance, too much...
...think that the article appearing in the Dec. 17 issue [of TIME] was somewhat unfair and inaccurate in its statements regarding my father's connection in a legal way with Mr. Insull and his company and also with regard to stock holdings...
...Bigotry," said Governor Roosevelt, "ignorance of Democratic principles; the spread by unspeakable and un-American methods of the most atrocious falsehoods; unfair and improper pressure brought to bear upon workers in specially favored Republican industries, false claims for the prosperity of the country and kindred propaganda, cheated, so my correspondents feel, our party out of the Presidency." The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune replied: "If Governor Roosevelt and his correspondents have any evidence of illegal attempts to influence the 1928 election, that evidence ought to go to the legislature or the courts. Even then the reference to the Tilden...