Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton...
...Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy building program. It was plain in the demand of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman that Henry Ford settle his differences with labor (before a final decision by the Supreme Court) or go without a $2,000,000 contract...
Like 23 other States, Colorado has an Unfair Practices Law. Passed in 1937, it prohibits merchants from selling goods at less than cost. The Colorado Food Distributors' Association, formed at a mass meeting of Denver grocers to enforce it, has for two years defined "cost" as wholesale price plus 9% for overhead...
...members of the association met in the auditorium of Denver's Conoco (Continental Oil) Building, decided that 9% was too low. On a show of hands, only a few grocers confessed to operating costs of less than 14%, none to less than 12%. The minimum markup under the Unfair Practices Law was upped promptly to 12%, plus 2% for grocers with their own wholesale warehouses...
Biggest obstacle to the spread of Progressive Education has been college entrance requirements. Progressives claim that these requirements: 1) keep high-school curricula in a strait jacket; 2) are unfair to the five out of six high-school students who never go to college. Because colleges insisted that students could not cope with college unless they had prescribed doses of mathematics and foreign languages, P. E. A. eight years ago made U. S. colleges a sporting proposition: let them admit students without these requirements and see what happened...