Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Newman, Rauschning seems to have been wounded into writing by one of those tactless remarks, to which people who have changed sides are vulnerable and rawly sensitive ("Your question is meant kindly. But may I reply that it has hurt me more than unjust and malevolent judgments from opponents. . . .")-And like Newman's, Rauschning's apologia is no apology at all, but a careful and courageous examination of his course, revealing great probity, political acumen, intellectual equilibrium...
What was to be done? There was only one way out, said the President-set a ceiling on prices. Said he: "In this way alone can the nation be protected from the evil consequences of a chaotic struggle for gains which must prove either illusory or unjust, and which must lead to the disaster of unchecked inflation...
...newspaper understandingly or write a simple letter. . . . In one-half of our 48 States the average rural teacher receives less than $600 per year. . . . The movement to reduce . . . school services and support because of the prospect of higher federal taxes has already begun. . . . There is a marked increase in unjust and destructive criticism of teachers, textbooks. ... In this period of national crisis it is as important to support and improve our schools as it is to support and develop our Army and Navy...
...word "questionable" that the major fallacy of the argument appears. These ends are questionable to whom? Obviously, it is to William M. Wood. But who has entrusted to William M. Wood a discrimination so absolute that his views of the just and unjust shall be accepted as sovereign? Who is he to define the words "patriotic", "subversive", "anti-American"?--Let him first define the word "American...
This is not only untrue and unjust. It is downright insulting to thousands of women who are working from necessity, not from choice...