Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After observing the vigilance of the state's attorney and his assistants, and after having an opportunity to observe the determination of the grand jury and the Chicago Crime Commission, I believe that it is unfair and misleading to register, as you did, a complacent attitude toward crime, either by this community or by its law-enforcement agencies...
When Government lawyers told the story to the press last week, company officials cried Unfair! Hundreds of such cases, they claimed, come up every year without getting into print. It would take several quarts of the improperly distilled water to give a man a fever; the "undissolved particles" were material which had come off the ampoule glass; the mold was probably Penicillium notatum. (Winthrop makes penicillin.) Unfortunately for the company, distilled water is not supposed to contain anything but water, not even gratuitous penicillin...
That was what Big Bill Knudsen said in 1938. He and most other businessmen were outraged because an employer, if he so much as remarked that he did not like unions, could promptly be hauled before the National Labor Relations Board and charged with unfair labor practices. But unions could say anything they felt about management, short of libel...
...room mansion near Charles Town built in 1820 by a grandnephew of George Washington, and "restored" last year by Mrs. Funkhouser. His opponents like to point out that he teaches Sunday School in one wing of the mansion and plays poker in the other. This is true but somewhat unfair, for his piety is well tested; he even forbids swearing at the poker table...
...British entertainers who visited troops for only three weeks at a time. His special target was Britain's middle-aged comic music-hall darling, Grade Fields. White hall's brass hats rushed to defend her, demanded that the News be suppressed, declared that Winston Churchill "felt it unfair" that Gracie "should have been singled out." Monty was told that "certain other articles have not met with his [Churchill's] approval...