Word: biased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club has invited a speaker to talk on "Socialist Bias in American Colleges," he said. "The Club feels this subject particularly appropriate in the light of the Harvard student body's naivete to the dangers of subversion...
...Lattimore, and asked the jurist to disqualify himself from the bench during Lattimore's forthcoming trial on charges of perjury. In the past such action has come only after evidences of exceptionally flagrant abuse, yet the Government's case against Youngdalh is a flimsy one. Of Youngdahl has a bias, it apparently did not affect his judgment, for in dismissing these charges he was upheld by an overwhelming 8 to 1 majority in the Court of Appeals. The two counts this court reinstated were so minor that the Government decided to drop its case rather than press for an indictment...
...Government succeeds in preventing Youngdahl from judging the new counts or appeals the case on charges of bias, it will in effect be deciding the issue himself. For a future court, making the same decision, might lay itself open to similar accusations. Indeed, if carried to its logical extreme, this lack of confidence in the courts could undermine the whole judicial system...
Perhaps these charges of bias coming from both sides were the surest signs of the School's real objectivity. But that was small consolation for a school in an experimental stage when it needed assistance. Fortunately, however this problem never reached the critical stage...
...committee recognized what it called certain "extraordinary facts" in the case, including "a prior adjudication favorable to Mr. Glasser of the subject matter as to which he invoked the Fifth Amendment, a continuing harassment on the same charges over a 12-year period, . . . Indication of bias and pre-judgment on the part of the House committee." But the group found Glasser "unnecessarily militant," accused him of lack of concern for the University's interest, and called his actions "incompatible with the trustees' policy...