Word: biased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lids of Europe's dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
...there is any way to discover 'the" American it is that of the Physical anthropologist. The observer who approaches the question from the nationalistic or cultural standpoint fails to draw a conclusive answer, on the one hand from his natural bias, and on the other by confusion and multiplicity of definitive bases...
...under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a non-Hoffman Republican holdover, with having bungled the original investigation. He accused Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Democrat, of having conducted Hauptmann's prosecution at Flemington with bias and prejudice...
...style for what the well-dressed Government will wear. Yet Russia has caused more conflicting political-fashion reports than any other country in the world. Patterns brought back from the Red Style Centre by contemptuous or delighted buyers have differed hugely; most seemed to have been cut on the bias. Superimposed or pieced together, however ingeniously, they made little better than a crazy quilt. But last week appeared a pattern of the U.S.S.R. that was no piecemeal snippet but cut out of whole cloth. As all political tailors knew, it was the painstakingly honest work of an old reliable firm...
Consistent with your obvious bias against the U. S. S. R. is your reference to Stalin as a "terrorist" while withholding the same qualification from Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The labor movement, the proletariat as a whole can expect nothing but sniggering from a magazine whose heart bleeds over poor J. P. Morgan having to answer questions before a horrid munitions investigating committee. Your cut of a Morgan partner exposed to the "cold stare" of a committee clerk was a perfect illustration of your antipathy...