Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges made against me so preyed upon my mind that I trembled upon the very edge of eternity.† . . . I never stole an election. . . . How unfair and unjust my accusers have been in attempting to twist mere clerical irregularities and technicalities into acts of political fraud and conspiracy...
...subject of the Newark debate is: Resolved, That as part of its disarmament program the United States should promise to cooperate with other notions to protect a disarmed nation from an unjust attack...
Sugar Senator Broussard talked, of course, about "unjust: competition." By that he meant the fact that all Philippine products are admitted to the U. S. duty free. Under the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 free sugar imports from the Islands were limited to 300,000 tons yearly. Later this restriction was removed. During hearings on the present tariff bill an attempt was made to restore it. This movement was blocked through the influence of Secretary of State Stimson, who, a onetime (1927-29) Philippine governor, said that a tax on Philippine sugar would ruin the Islands. The sugar Senators, arguing...
...Ratified a treaty originated by the League of Nations, to eliminate unjust restrictions (other than tariff barriers) on the passage of goods in international trade...
...Poindexter had her husband complain to President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru. Eager to please, President Leguia ordered Senor Gonzalez-Prada to return Cornelius to the Poindexters. Senor Gonzalez-Prada thereupon, last week, cabled his resignation, saying: "The orders contained in your cablegram are unjust and I shall not carry them out." He suspected the Cornelius episode had been used as an excuse to discomfit him. Washington credited Mrs. Poindexter, famed for her knowledge of the gossip of officialdom, with having this time created an Incident herself...