Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress has at long last recognized the inequitable tax treatment created by double taxation of dividends and has made a modest start toward removing it. We are hopeful that, as revenue considerations permit, further reduction in this unfair tax can be made. Of equal importance to the future soundness of our economy is much-needed revision of the capital gains tax, which has discouraged the flow of funds' from seasoned issues into new ventures...
...critical articles, both ambitions in intent, flounder on the problem of epistemology in modern literature. Any estimate of Roger Shattuck's Retreat and Return must be to some extent unfair, for it is only a brief extract from his forthcoming book. However his broad classifications seem to bury many ramifications and nuances in the authors he discusses. That the literature of his period is "self-reflexive" is sufficiently explicit in the sources themselves. But a definition of the myriad meanings of this term would seem to be the critic's task, as well as a search for underlying motivations...
...Student Activities has adopted a regulation of student film showing that is no regulation at all. In the future, undergraduate organizations are not to show movies in the University's tax-free buildings to make profits. To do so not only would bring suits from local movie houses against unfair competition the students' use of educational facilities to avoid overhead expenses but such abuse of the University's educational privilege threatens its tax-free status. Secondarily, student groups are supposed to be formed for cultural purposes, not to make money in film showing...
Princeton and Yale claim to have a greater percentage of alumni donating to their Funds. "But it's unfair," McCord explained, "to compare us to them, because our Fund, since 1948, has only been for the unrestricted use of the College. Yale and Princeton, on the other hand, include in their totals gifts to their graduate schools...
...lived, it is almost certain that the upper Chamber would have voted to seat him, because in retrospect many Senators realized that failure to grant Bilbo a committee hearing was an unjust violation of traditional Senate procedure. These Senators, then, were supporting an unsavory colleague because he had received unfair treatment. In doing this, they almost lost sight of the fact that Bilbo himself made unfairness a sword, and abusive language his cutting edge...