Word: biased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while in 1946, Caldwell was a top officer of the State Department's Information Service and Voice of America in China. He gives a rare inside view of U.S. diplomacy's bias in the period of the ill-starred Marshall mission. Caldwell was directed to prepare a confidential report on Communist propaganda in China. He found it viciously anti-American, and said so ("I was very naive"), whereupon a Washington cable rebuked him for maliciously disturbing U.S.-Russian relations...
...Republican National Committee showed its bias in other ways than the contested-delegates fight. It picked an almost 100% pro-Taft group of convention officials (TIME, June 23), and it loaded the list of invited speakers with a high proportion of Taft partisans...
...Hearstlings to waving the flag or jumping into battle against vivisectionists, women in bars and other pet Hearst peeves, find a totally different climate. The new day began for the papers in the chain when Bill Hearst sent all his editors this instruction: . . . Use the greatest care to avoid bias or lack of objectivity in the handling of the news . . . News must be presented without partiality . . . Our news and campaigns . . . should not be extreme, unfair or one-sided . . . Please impart this point of view to all members of your editorial staff...
...hold up his confirmation as Attorney General until they had questioned him thoroughly in his role in the Amerasia case (see box). From another quarter came an even sharper attack ; Philadelphia District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, a fellow Philadelphia Democrat, predicted: "The regime of McGranery will be marked by incompetence, bias, favoritism and ward politics at its worst." McGranery shrugged off the assault: "If the Senate feels I am crooked, or it has no confidence in my abilities, it won't confirm...
...reason for the number, Morgan asserted, was to reduce the margin of error, and to eliminate what is known as the "bias of non-answerers." "We therefore cross off our list," he continued, "all those who answer ... We are only interested in those who do not answer...