Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sympathizing with the workers in the Bethlehem Steel Strike, the Harvard Liberal Union's executive council sent a telegram last night to the District Director of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee congratulating the strikers for making just demands to remedy unfair labor practices on the part of the company. The Liberal Union has fully supported the national defense program, but resents the use of troopers to break up what it considers a perfectly justifiable strike...
...TIME sympathizes with the feelings of the second Mrs. McAdoo (daughter of Woodrow Wilson), who divorced the Senator in 1934, but maintains that its story was neither flippant nor unfair...
Above all, I believe that I should do no injustice to or take any unfair advantage of any man, woman or child, either directly or indirectly, and that I should discourage others from so doing by obeying God's commandment not to kill, steal, defraud or deceive, and not to covet what rightfully belongs to others...
...present inter-House meal system places an unfair strain on the purse of the host. House members are allowed to eat only the ridiculously small number of one, two, or three meals in another dining room, depending on whether ten, fourteen, or twenty-one meals per week are contracted for. However, when a guest eats beyond his limit in other than the home pastures, his unfortunate host, who really can not be expected to keep an intimate check on the other man's eating habits, is forced to pay an outrageous sum for the privilege of having company...
...colleges and universities in the country have N.Y.A. student work programs. Included are Yale, Princeton, Radcliffe, M.I.T., Dartmouth Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, etc. It is unfair that students attending Harvard should not receive similar opportunities to earn an education...