Word: unjustly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought to be the last man in the State of New York to do"). But the President's added comment was, although oblique, much stronger...
...anything more wrong than 100% wrong." Said the New York Times with unusual asperity: "A line of attack which does no credit to him or his party. ... If this says anything, it says that a vote for Mr. Willkie is a vote for Hitler. That is an unjust charge, because the record shows that Mr. Willkie has been just as straightforward as Mr. Roosevelt in his condemnation of Hitler. ... It is an irresponsible charge. . . . Hitler may well believe that he will find tougher opposition in an American defense program run by a man who has had firsthand business experience than...
...angry, frightened people, the press, Congress were beyond accepting such answers. Savage, often uninformed and unjust critics screamed at generals and admirals. Massachusetts' well-informed young Senator Lodge set the Senate by the ears with a resolution providing what many a temperate critic has long demanded, what many another within the services has secretly advocated: a full, impartial investigation of U. S. defense needs, method, purpose. Congressmen sensitive to clamor from home had up a batch of admirals (Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas...
...holds a very important public office. My own views are so extreme that they are incompatible with political responsibility to an electorate that certainly holds quite different views, so far as I can see. To attribute any sympathy with them to one of our most responsible statesmen is unjust, particularly with the specific type of forecast that you allowed your reporter to make...
...Deal is not essentially defeatist. True, it now emphasizes planned reform and regulation of private enterprise, but only because further expansion is impossible until the unjust distribution of wealth inherited from the older system is rooted out. Thus the New Deal concentrates on restoring health to the present economic structure, and rightly looks for expansion only after the patient is well...