Word: biased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astounded and distressed to see those letters in the last issue charging TIME with an anti-Semitic bias (Nov. 27). I am a Jew of quite highly developed sensitiveness, yet never once in all my cover-to-cover reading of your magazine have I discovered anything in the least offensive. On the contrary, touching particularly the developments in Germany you have been so trenchant and frank that I've wondered why TIME has not been barred in the Reich. (At least, it was apparently not under the ban when I was in Germany in May.) The Görings...
TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines...
...Rollins board of trustees retorted that the A. A. U. P. investigators had befogged the sole important issue, the dismissal of Professor Rice, by bringing up tenure. The trustees accused one investigator of bias, of prying into other dismissals, of seeking to "coerce or bribe" Rollins into adopting A. A. U. P. tenure rules...
...great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master in the violent use of rubberstamp phrases) and defiant bias. U. S. readers will find Marlborough entertainingly Tory reading, will look forward to the volumes still to come...
Guthrie McClintic is waiting until Tallulah Bankhead gets well to produce Owen Davis' Jezebel, a play about old New Orleans. George White will have a new Scandals, Lew Leslie a new Blackbirds. Walter Hampden is rehearsing Ruy Bias. Max Gordon is making ready Gowns by Roberta, with music & libretto by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock...