Word: bias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John W. Davis,* onetime Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency, Hiss had come with the highest recommendations. One of his chief sponsors was Chairman John Foster Dulles, and not a single member of the board could see anything wrong with Hiss's record. Had he ever shown a bias in favor of the Soviet Union while in office? Replied Davis flatly: "Not the slightest...
...professor asserted that Judge Kaufman's had interjected his own bias into the preceedings over 100 times, "helping out government witnesses and making smaller defense witnesses...
...Kaiser-Frazer Case, in which Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. backed out of a stock-floating deal with K-F. K-F lost a $3,123,743 suit against Otis because it misrepresented its earnings in its registration statement of the stock issue. The SEC showed bias against Otis and in favor of K-F, said the committee, and still has a fraud charge pending against Otis. "But, at the same time," said the committee, "[it] has not moved against Kaiser-Frazer . . . although the charges and countercharges arose out of the same transaction." The Heller subcommittee called...
Students thought well of the film as an example of movie technique the poll results said, but disapproved it content. "They were aware of its bias," Rossi said, "and discounted the message it contained. The crudity of the propaganda even boomeranged for a large section of the audience, who whistled and jeered and generally thought it a farce...
MANY YEARS. AM SHOCKED AS I'M SURE ARE MANY OF YOUR READERS AT THE STRONG PRO-CATHOLIC BIAS OF YOUR ARTICLE ON THE OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT ACCORDED THE CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSIONARIES IN ITALY. THE FACTS ARE TWISTED AND DISTORTED. FOR EXAMPLE YOU STATE THEY HAVE MADE ONLY 45O CONVERTS. THE WORD "ONLY" BETRAYS THE STRONG