Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt it was unfair for everyone from the members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Relief Committee to Wallace voters to be termed "un-American and subversive" by Attorney General Tom Clark...
...make policy, has turned out in practice to be too large, and its representatives too poorly informed on the Key's activities, to be successful. This unwieldy Executive needs either to be pared down to a workable size or restricted to advisory power. The Associates are in the unfair position of doing all the work and having no vote in Key Policy. Their position offers very little prestige, since the Key is a new organization and not well publicized. In all fairness, the Associates should be given some vote in the Key's policy, and adequate publicity for their work...
Concluded Tobey: "The maze of negotiations, investments, loans and leases between these trusts and Textron presents a fantastic picture of fiscal manipulation," which gave Textron an unfair advantage over taxpaying corporations. Tobey's remedy: Congress should pass a law forcing all such trusts to pay out 85% of their annual gross income to beneficiaries, to get tax exemption...
Teeth. The American Dental Trade Association, which includes makers & sellers of tooth-pulling instruments, faced a little painful dentistry itself. The Federal Trade Commission charged its 144 members with price-fixing and restraint of trade. A.D.T.A. said the charges were "reckless and unfair...
...gets anything out of them, and that annual plant elections, while not eliminating these strikes, can at least cut them down. But the prohibition of secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing to do with a dispute in another plant or industry. One thing is clear: if Congress presumes to handle the secondary boycott in a new law, it must define more closely who are the legitimate participants of a bona fide labor dispute...