Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, if I were President, and I should find the Treasury menaced by an unjust obligation of $4,000,000,000, such as the soldiers' bonus, and I could not summon enough votes from my party to sustain my veto, I would resign...
...Americans who favor the measure do so not from any love of this bill in itself, but because they want attention and aid for disabled veterans and decline to wait another six years for a saner program. President Coolidge's veto message declaring the bill "economically unsound and morally unjust" expresses to the letter the sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly...
...Corriere d' Italia was more resentful. It characterized the American immigration law as "unjust, one-sided and advantageous to Anglo-Saxon, German and Scandinavian immigrants to the injury of Slavs and Italians as well as to the yellow and black races...
...diplomatic pen protested against the immigration cut as being an unjust discrimination against Italians. That was all. Diplomatic necessity had dictated that a note be written to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, but there was written into it Caetani's personal aristocratic restraint. His predecessor, Signor Vittorio Ricci, in a similar situation, once made a speech attacking the U. S. Congress in no uncertain terms. He went to Rome on a vacation which has not yet ended. Prince Gelasio's diplomacy is of a higher order and he merits the epithet of aristocratic diplomat, diplomatic aristocrat...
...first great root of war," began the speaker, "lies in economic imperialism and competitive industrialism. This industrial strife comes from such causes as the unjust distribution of wealth and income, and unemployment...