Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fought against Washington, from the viewpoint of "Old England" to whom the Revolution was, at the time, not an epoch-making event but simply a regrettable incident. Polite answers from the U. S. historians present greeted these remarks, but minds went back to ponder the proposition that bias is best in history. ... It was a reactionary proposition, quite out of line with the best liberal pedagogy of the day and with the ironic resurrection of "mauve" and "dreadful" decades now so popular in the U. S. But without bias, Mr. Baldwin's listeners reflected, there might be nothing left...
...past five years to free Canada from every vestige of dependence upon Britain have been remarked with disfavor in Downing Street, and at Buckingham Palace. Per contra, Premier Meighen is a staunch Imperialist. Lord Byng, it is apparent, cut Canada's Gordian Knot on a distinctly Imperial bias...
...wonder whether you intended to color your reference this week to "snubs" of General Wood by President Wilson with bias? Wilson had pretty good reasons for most of his appointments, and generally speaking he was intent on doing good. His prosecution of the War was hampered, as was Lincoln's, by smaller persons who wished to get the job under the control of the right political party. Although many Republicans worked hard and earnestly for victory under Wilson's leadership, some proposed a War Board, made up of Republicans, to take over the duties of the President and thus...
...even though the narrow vote cannot be said to reflect the complacency that evidently pervaded the committee action, neither does it reflect partisan bias. Sixteen Republicans voted for the Democrat, Steck, while nine Democrats sought to keep Brookhart in the Senate. If political preference did play a part, it was not along party lines...
...Pronouncements tend to show that "big business" will be served up as the piece de resistance next fall. The alleged laxity of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and the protectionist bias oft Tariff Commission provide traditional issues with social implications wider than the mere corruption charge...