Word: unjustness
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...most repugnant tasks is to disapprove measures intended to benefit our sick and disabled men. . . . But I want a square deal between veterans-not unjust discriminations between special groups, and I do not want wasteful or unnecessary expenditures. . . . This measure is a radical departure . . . into the field of pension to men who have incurred disabilities . . . having no valid relation to their military service. . . . The legal 'presumption' [of War disability up to 1930] is not a physical possibility and constitutes a wholly false and fictitious basis for legislation in veterans...
Sirs: Few countries envy our moral reputation. Granted it is unjust but who is to blame? Out here the cinema is the popular entertainment for the evening. Most of them show American pictures. Pictures that we Americans see and soon forget. Pictures from which our foreign friends form their conception of the average American life. The ordinary picture fan out here sees our fair America-not once, but some fifty or sixty times each year-as a place where every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock...
...would: 1) have to build a cruiser fleet on specifications dictated by Britain; 2) have less than a sporting chance with 6-in. gun cruisers instead of 8-in; 3) be at a serious disadvantage against Japan in defending far Pacific possessions. Such words as "wicked," "detrimental," "unjust," "restrictive," "a mistake," "inferiority" poured forth volubly from naval witnesses against the treaty...
...York's Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week placed a whacking veto, resounding with such adjectives as "absurd," "unjust," "impracticable," upon a prime Republican power bill. The bill dealt with a state policy of valuation of utility properties for rate-fixing purposes. Governor Roosevelt stoutly reiterated the Democratic tenet, voiced clearly before now by such Democrats as Alfred Emanuel Smith and Owen D. Young, that the rate-fixing basis should be actual cost of plants and not the replacement cost thereof...
...should prefer not to send in an anonymous communication, but having had four years' dealings with the university service bureau, I have no desire to expose any of the maids to their unjust wrath. Therefore, if you care to print this communication, please sign it with my class numerals alone. Sincerely yours...