Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unfair...
...selection are apparent. In the past it has been the general custom to have the rival coaches select their own officials, thus indirectly, and sometimes directly, exerting an influence upon the temper of the official's judgment. The small college has often maintained that it was the victim of unfair decisions solely because the official was dependent upon the larger university for continued employment. Under the proposed plan, the criticism will be impossible, for it will provide a background which will be entirely free from favoritism--Cornell Daily...
Last week in Maiden, Mass., the Olympic champions from Uruguay and the Boston Americans were plying each other with authentic socker, when Boston jumped into a 3 to 2 lead on a Uruguay foul. The South Americans thought they had been given an unfair decision...
...Right to Refuse. The Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association decided that the Bedford Cut Stone Co. (Indiana) and 23 other corporations were unfair to union labor. So the union ordered all its 5,000 members to refuse to work on stone cut by these corporations. Last week the Supreme Court reversed the decision of a lower court; ruled that the union was restraining trade in violation of the anti-trust laws, that the stone corporations were entitled to relief by injunction. Associate Justices Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the two great liberals of the Supreme Court, dissented vigorously...
...critical column at all, rating it simply a news story, another sensational sideshow of the arts. The sophisticates or neo-sophisticates of Manhattan went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude was one of puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this reception seemed unfair. Composer Antheil knows the classics, admires Beethoven and Handel above all others, appreciates them intelligently. He is an accomplished musician himself on orthodox instruments. His departures, though radical, are too sincere to be dismissed with a sniff for the showoff. He is, first of all, an earnest young...