Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter in TIME, March 26 purporting to be from C. L. Dean of Burlington, Iowa, caused me to inquire about him there to learn the reason for his bias against Christian Science. Careful inquiries at Burlington have failed to find any C. L. Dean.* Apparently, therefore, the writer of the letter in question shrank behind an assumed name or place. His letter, however, indexed him to a certain extent by evincing heated intolerance for Christian Scientists because we choose to depend on spiritual law, power, and practice for prevention or relief from disease. Therefore, I maintain that his intolerance...
...Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor...
...Thousands of them may be Catholics, but the foundation of the Democratic Party was erected with sufficient strength to hold those of every creed, without bias or prejudice or favoritism of discrimination...
...Dayton and Chicago are linked together one is tempted to infer that the Dayton fear of the British have some common origin. Perhaps Boston may be taken to task for its book censorship troubles or its feeling against cracked ice in night clubs. Yet Dr. Potter confesses no personal bias. He spoke of addressing school children and Rotary clubs, and finding that his material had to be graded down from the former to the latter. He spoke of the idealism of America, and the effect the names of Lindbergh and Lincoln have in arousing it. He recounted his telling...
Leonard Wood needs no defender, but the expression "inexplicable lack of consideration for them," regarding a man who gave his life in their service when the whole world knows that he could have pursued easier and softer roads, betrays colossal ignorance and bias...