Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week William Crapo Durant called to Manhattan 500 Durant dealers and distributors. "First," said he, ''Do you believe in W. C. Durant?" Five hundred men rose up, boomed loyally: "Yes." "Second, do you believe that W. C. Durant would be unfair or unjust ... to men who have been loyal to him for years . . . through every trial?" The Durant legion shouted denial. Then Mr. Durant announced he would quit the presidency (not his stock control) of Durant Motors...
...Equal Proportions, North Carolina receives 10 and Vermont 2 representatives, and the "disparity" betwen the two states is 45 percent. Under the Method of Major Fractions, North Carolina receives 11 and Vermont 1 representatives, and the "disparity" is increased to 51 percent. The Method of Major Fractions is obviously unfair to Vermont...
Critics usually fall foul of the Rhodes Scholars for their failure to approximate the vision of Rhodes Scholars which exists in the minds of their critics. Much obviously unfair criticism has been directed against the Rhodes Scholars for their failure thus for to lead the world, or at least the English-speaking world. To destructive critics who take this position, one would like to suggest that it is just as fair to condemn education in general because educated men recently made such a mess of guiding the world in the ways of peace and civilization. The Rhodes Scholars have...
...hearing should be entertaining, with the enemies of skunks exhibiting disinterred clothes and sometimes embarrassingly placed bee stings against the evidence of the friends of skunks who will show the little allies of man eating obnoxious insects and in the form of furs. The hearing would be decidedly unfair were not a skunk invited to show what he could do in an exhibition of natural talent. Laws are too much based on nebulous theory; here is a chance for the legislature of Michigan to make a name for itself as viewing concrete facts and basic causes before the passing...
...code consisted of 19 articles, most of which dealt with relations between "refiner, wholesaler, distributor and jobber" and the "retailer." As gasoline is by far the most important petroleum product, particularly for U. S. consumption, the "retailer" is usually the filling station owner and the code deals chiefly with unfair methods of securing filling station distribution. It says that the wholesaler should not lease pumps, tanks or other equipment; should not pay the retailer's rent, put up his buildings, lease him land at nominal rentals, or loan him money. He shall not give the retailer credit concessions...