Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan as outlined by the members of the committee, is to hear the complaints as they are registered by the students and to investigate them accordingly. "Unfair business practices" include high prices on goods and extravagant charges for such services as automobile repairs, radio repairs, and tailoring...
...American soldier is given to a critical attitude regarding even the best of officers. But what is more serious, the officers concerned are so stigmatized and branded . . . that their release amounts to a public humiliation and possibly the ruin of their civilian careers. This last result is most unfair and unjust. The majority of these officers have done their level best and the more quietly they can be eased out of the picture, the more just the procedure. The search for news stories results in the opposite direction...
...those crowding the nation into war, and charging "the ex-hero's appeal to prejudice and bigotry," you misrepresent him and the whole movement for a Constitutional war or none. I have read every issue of TIME and have found it usually fair. But this is so unfair and foul it stinks...
TIME, SEPT. 22, IS UNFAIR AND UNTRUE WHEN IT INSINUATES THAT "LOUELLA PARSONS DAY" IN DIXON, ILL. WAS USED TO EMBARRASS CINEMA STARS ALREADY DATED UP FOR THE LEGION CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE OR THAT "RIVALRY RUINED THE REVELRY "TRUE, MISS PARSONS, AT DIXON'S REQUEST, INVITED CINEMA CELEBRITIES TO COME HERE AND THEY DID, TO HELP MAKE THE GREATEST CELEBRATION OF ITS KIND EVER IN DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS BUT THEY WERE DIXON'S INVITATIONS AND DIXON SET THE DATE MANY MONTHS AGO AND WITH NO INKLING THAT IT INTERFERED WITH THE MILWAUKEE CONVENTION. SO FAR AS DIXON IS CONCERNED...
...most cases by merely consulting with the firm in question. Clear cut cases of dishonesty, if they arise, will be informed that they aren't going unnoticed, and even subjected to publicity if necessary. Nor should the Bureau's activities hurt Harvard-Cambridge relations; only those retailers engaging in unfair prices or practices will be hit, and the Harvard Square Business Men's Association has even offered to serve in an advisory capacity...