Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was not all it sounded. It was merely a way of saying that he had been put in charge of Government's policies toward business monopoly and unfair competition. This week Secretary Sawyer hinted that he would ask for repeal of wartime excise taxes, as something that would give "an incentive to business." It all had an unfamiliar, friendly ring...
...Bowles has dropped several John O'Hara characters into a Prokosch setting and used them to establish the fact that the human race is going into a moral Sahara fast. It is difficult to picture these people going any other way, but at the same time it is unfair to use them to symbolize all of humanity...
...Harvard Youth for Democracy, was denied Harvard recognition in January, 1948, on the grounds that 70 percent of its contributions and two-thirds of its circulation came from outside Harvard. This action was taken despite the fact that the magazine was edited entirely by Harvard students. It is unfair to imply that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities refused to recognize the magazine because of its political views, for, as Dean Bender said in reporting the Committee's action, "the best evidence that the Faculty Committee had not been moved in its consideration by the well-known Communist affiliations...
...also in the fundamentals, particularly in blocking, interference and tackling. Obviously Valpey had too many trick plays instead of a few simple basically sound ones, well executed, and he failed to provide protection for his passers. I think Harvard material was well above average this year, and it is unfair to them to have to participate in such a lamentable season...
Phillip Murray especially gets what seems unfair treatment. The man who led the organizing drive of the steel industry, who got U. S. Steel to sign a contract without a strike in 1937, who pushed his organizers through the tough "Little Steel" campaigns cannot be dismissed as a Lewis stooge without considerable evidence. Mr. Alinsky fails to point out that Murray may have been far more representative of the sentiments of labor than was Lewis when Murray took over the CIO, and that he certainly has followed since then a policy more sensitive to the needs and desires...