Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman, who had seized the industry earlier only to have the Supreme Court rule that he had no power to do so, stepped into the picture again. He rode up to Capitol Hill, asked Congress for seizure power. An injunction under the Taft-Hartley law, said Truman, would be unfair to the workers. After they had already worked more than 150 days without a contract, it would force them to work 80 days more without a raise. In Pittsburgh, Steelworker Tom Zema glowed: "Good old Harry. He talks like he's a Steelworker...
...substituted for the gun he was carrying. The slogan of the group that put on the act was "Books, not Gups." Conant was not at the game, but he says now "If I had been it would have been hard to sit there. That's what I call unfair ball...
...reading Crockford's last week, Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, said: "Most unfair and unseemly." Speculated a high churchman: "Whoever the author is, he belongs to the militant low church. [Moreover], no high dignitary, whatever his views . . . would express himself in so petulant a manner or make petty references to shades of purple . . . These definitely rule out anyone of importance."* Said the Church of England Newspaper (low church) : "Whoever the writer may be, he is a man distinguished by incisiveness of thought and accuracy in the use of language...
...Leonard K. Nicholson used both his New Orleans morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States to keep Stern's afternoon Item in check. Two years ago Stern found an ally, when the Justice Department started an antitrust suit against Nicholson's papers. The Government's main charge: unfair competition by Nicholson, because he forced advertisers to put ads in both his papers, even if they wanted to advertise only...
Last week, in a precedent-making decision, Federal Judge Herbert W. Christenberry ruled that Nicholson's unit rates were indeed unfair competition. Thus, what started out as a local fight blossomed into an issue affecting more than 170 newspapers all over the U.S.; many publishers who own morning and evening papers in one city also use the unit advertising rates, i.e., advertisers must buy space in both papers to get in either...