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Word: unfairness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made no proposals at all as to lumber. As far as mines (and oil wells) are concerned, the Treasury has never suggested that they should not be allowed to deduct the actual depletion sustained on the cost of the properties. The Treasury has sought to eliminate the present unsound, unfair and insidious allowance for depletion on the basis of a percentage of the gross income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Congress did not pass a thorough-going anti inflation measure. The Treasury proposed two plans to do the job as far as taxation could: the famous spendings tax and forced savings. Congress ignored both and filled the gap with one of the most unfair taxes in recent history, Senator Barkeley's "victory tax" of five per cent on all income...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/29/1942 | See Source »

...wish to defend the position of Catholics on the birth control amendment. Your editorial of yesterday concludes that "Fairness to the less financially privileged and freedom of conscience are the core of this people's referendum." We are being neither unfair to the poor, nor imposing on freedom of conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

...Trade-union members must be "protected by the state from unfair political pressure by the organizations themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Voice for No Reform | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Even the Mayor's close friends became alarmed by his behavior. They knew that some reporters had been unfair to him, that most had not. They well knew his terrible-tempered propensity for bulldozing his official subordinates, screaming and cursing at his office force. They took it. The press didn't. Fortnight ago the climax came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Caesar | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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